Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CIVILIZATION. Civilization, harharism and savagism geographically distributed.—Only the European families have passed throngh all the stages of socletary growth.—No instance or sign of decadence in them.—Asiatic communities culminate in harharism.—Nations on the borders of Asia only are stationary.—Africans are not a decaying race; they cannot be classed with the American Indians.—Their character in the United States.—Not to be judged by our present standards of capability and fitness for the world's uses.—African race resembles European women.—The future must solve the problem of their socletary relations.—Civilization elastic and composite.—Its late development.—India in advance of England in the fourteenth century.—The Moors superior to the Spaniards in the fifteenth century.—The Dark Ages in Europe.—Monarchy introduced order and initiated progress in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.—Intellectual and religious revolutions of the fifteenth century.—The age of the nascent industries, geographical discoveries, and the inanguration of man in the dominion of matter. —Progress of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.—The great career of the race carried forward by the people of European Origin.—Co-operative unity of diverse races.—Viclous generalities of the prevalent theory of Political Economy.—No single kindred is cosmopolitan.—The whole history of civilization is its only adequate definition. Civilization connects itself historically with certain races of men, and is limited by geographical lines. In general statement it may be called the European form of societary life ; as in like general terms Asia is barbaric, and Africa, for the want of any more exact term, may be classed as savage. These are the social, economic and political distinctions of t... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.