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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Human Life - -Author: Sherwood Sweet Knight - -Release Date: September 1, 2013 [EBook #43618] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMAN LIFE *** - - - - -Produced by eagkw, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43618 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img id="coverpage" src="images/frontcover.jpg" width="500" height="743" alt="" /> @@ -360,7 +321,7 @@ of the nebular hypothesis as a working basis, before we can harmonize our deductions from astronomical and geological grounds. Fortunately, the study of the -spiral nebulæ has done much to elucidate +spiral nebulæ has done much to elucidate our conceptions of the formation of the planetary systems, and from the discoveries made concerning these highly attenuated @@ -489,7 +450,7 @@ high as three inches per century. This silt is brought down in the tributary rivers and emptied into the gulfs. We also know that large areas in the Indian Ocean are being -covered with coral and the débris from the +covered with coral and the débris from the coral reefs. We are absolutely certain that every geological period has had its characteristic fauna and flora, and that, in both @@ -891,7 +852,7 @@ snow deposited upon the original source, and the rapidity of melting at the moraine. In Eastern England, no less than four distinct boulder clays have been found separated -by the débris deposited from the +by the débris deposited from the moraines of each ice sheet, and a few hundred miles away in France, the record is so certain that we know that the Arctic @@ -1206,7 +1167,7 @@ temples, a sacred and profane literature, and one who had a large and well-ordered knowledge of astronomy, as well as of agriculture<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> and the industrial arts. From the -archæological remains which have been discovered, +archæological remains which have been discovered, and, in particular, the marble statue of a king by the name of David, which was recently found at Bisinya, and @@ -1259,7 +1220,7 @@ king,—the famous Cyrus of history,—and, fortunately, his clay-cylinder; from one of the magnificent libraries of Susa, or Shushan; was recently found by Mr. Rassam,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> -amid the débris composing the mound, +amid the débris composing the mound, which is now the only mark left to show where these great centers of population once were, in the fertile valleys and coast @@ -1287,7 +1248,7 @@ their height at about the same time, but here we can get no inkling of a greater antiquity for man than that given in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> Middle Egyptian Empire. In the cities of -Troy and Mycenæ, we find civilization at +Troy and Mycenæ, we find civilization at its crest some five hundred years later, and it is not until we come to Arabia that we again find evidence of such high antiquity @@ -1306,7 +1267,7 @@ while in the cases of Chaldea and Egypt there can be no mistake. The Israelite civilization was at its height under David and Solomon, about contemporaneously with -that of Troy and Mycenæ, and even the Hebrew +that of Troy and Mycenæ, and even the Hebrew tradition does not attempt to antedate the year 2,000 B. C., so that we can obtain no information from this source. Greece @@ -1362,8 +1323,8 @@ the marsupials in the Jurassic, and then the oldest placentals in the Cretaceous. Of the placentals, in turn, the first to appear in the oldest Tertiary period are the lowest -primates, the prosimiæ, which are followed -by the simiæ, in the Miocene. Of the carrhinæ, +primates, the prosimiæ, which are followed +by the simiæ, in the Miocene. Of the carrhinæ, the cynopitheci precede the anthropomorpha; from one branch of the latter,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> during the Pliocene period, arises the apeman, @@ -1575,13 +1536,13 @@ Time, at least 200,000,000 years.</p> <td> </td> <td align="right"><span class="sptb">Miocene</span></td> <td> </td> - <td class="col5">Simiæ</td> + <td class="col5">Simiæ</td> <td class="col8"> </td> </tr><tr> <td> </td> <td align="right"><span class="sptb">Pliocene</span></td> <td> </td> - <td class="col5">Catarrhinæ</td> + <td class="col5">Catarrhinæ</td> <td class="col8"> </td> </tr><tr> <td> </td> @@ -2388,7 +2349,7 @@ imagination at this time is not to be desired; since, under these circumstances with the majority of human beings, the imaginative impulse runs more to sensual -than to æsthetic things.</p> +than to æsthetic things.</p> <p>The demands of our present civilization upon the individual, especially if he belongs @@ -3007,7 +2968,7 @@ or unlovely and vile things; but, all conditions being equal, there is no other time in life when the human mind will so readily respond to the pure and noble stimulation -of æstheticism as against the baseness and +of æstheticism as against the baseness and depravity of unbridled sensuality.</p> <p>Much has been said concerning the difference @@ -3020,7 +2981,7 @@ similar—the fitting of the individual for a<span class="pagenum"><a name=" useful and happy life. But it does not follow that, because in our present civilization, the woman is necessarily the guardian -of the æsthetic, while the man is engrossed +of the æsthetic, while the man is engrossed with the practical, that the same set of facts and power of investigation and reason are not just as good a preparation with @@ -3510,7 +3471,7 @@ was by his sisters, Isis and Nephthys, provided with a series of charms, by which he was protected from all evil and harm in the future life, and who had recited certain -magical formulæ which had, in the world +magical formulæ which had, in the world to come, given him everlasting life. It is certain that the practice of this belief changed in minor details many times as the @@ -4080,7 +4041,7 @@ perished as a result of the insatiable thirst of Jehovah, Christ, and Mahomet for more influence in terrestrial affairs and an augmentation of adherents. The code of -ethics prescribed by the Jewish régime was +ethics prescribed by the Jewish régime was good—far in advance of that of the greater portion of their neighbors. But Egypt and Chaldea both played a very important part @@ -4431,7 +4392,7 @@ and when dead, as forming the memories upon which the imagination will fondly dwell, and that bring into his life whatever real satisfaction he may have. As -a means of æsthetic development, nothing is +a means of æsthetic development, nothing is of higher value than the affections, and, as a stimulant for action along this line, they are without an equal. We have only to remember @@ -4536,7 +4497,7 @@ form of hedonism, or even the more gross sex-worship, and it was not until mankind was removed far from the brute that his imagination developed, and his mind was -capable of abstract thought, that his æsthetic +capable of abstract thought, that his æsthetic nature began to develop. As his intellect became more profound, and his mental range wider, his power of abstract @@ -4911,7 +4872,7 @@ over the Slavonic people of Eastern Europe. For centuries the battles for individual freedom of body and mind had been fought in torture chambers, at heresy -trials, at the stake of every auto-da-fé, as +trials, at the stake of every auto-da-fé, as well as in the legislative halls of insular and continental Europe, and finally this struggle has culminated in the greatest, @@ -5076,7 +5037,7 @@ shadow of her majestic past.</p> <p>If we would have the most that is to be got out of life, we should see to it that more time and attention is paid to the development -of the æsthetic side of our +of the æsthetic side of our natures. Our public buildings are to-day usually designed upon grand and majestic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span> lines; some of our public parks are laid @@ -5093,10 +5054,10 @@ ordinary routine of life? With all but the wealthier class, the getting of a livelihood and the attention to other material things, consumes all the time and energy available -under the present régime so that no leisure +under the present régime so that no leisure is left to cultivate an appreciation or desire for the beautiful. It is the amount of -development of the æsthetic nature of the +development of the æsthetic nature of the masses which is the surest and most certain index of any civilization. Schlegel has most justly observed that “when men are @@ -5159,7 +5120,7 @@ allied to external charms.”</p> <p>Our attention as a nation to the acquisition<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span> of material wealth to the utter disregard -of our æsthetic natures may very +of our æsthetic natures may very largely account for the fact that America has produced but few of those literary and artistic stars which are almost always coincident @@ -5478,7 +5439,7 @@ Contents. Also the following corrections were made, on page<br /> 91 “posession” changed to “possession” (after they had secured possession of their)<br /> -127 “formluæ” changed to “formulæ” (had recited certain magical formulæ +127 “formluæ” changed to “formulæ” (had recited certain magical formulæ which had)<br /> 175 ’ changed to ” (never to have loved at all.”)<br /> @@ -5488,391 +5449,10 @@ which had)<br /> <p>Otherwise the original has been preserved, including archaic and unusual words, as well as unusual or inconsistent spelling and -hyphenation. For instance: Phœdrus is usually spelled as Phædrus, +hyphenation. 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