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Credit: The nervous system and its functions / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![OP MORAL PERCEPTION. he now. Whether capable or not of more his race ia fast disappearing, as after him will perish the Australian, and every other wild inhabitant of climates in which either Euro- peans or the inferior grades of improvable man can live. But let us look at the progress of those fami- lies of mankind which have manifested the capability of moral and intellectual develop- ment. In countries by the eastern shores of the Mediterranean civilization began. Be- tween 2000 and ] 500 years before the Chris- tian era all its elements were there already put forth. In Egypt, science and the arts, though coupled with degrading superstitions ; near, for a while within it, the people who preserved the knowledge of the true God; and Phoenicia could boast her commerce and letters, and Asia Minor sent her colonies to Greece and Italy. It was the dawn of the first* day of the world, which with the night that followed lasted 3000 years. * To do justice to the metaphor, it was the third. The first Milton sang; its night fell with the fall of man. The second closed with that cataclysm, the memory of which haunts the traditions of every nation. The tliird, long and slow in breaking, It seemed that mist of dawning gray Would never dapple into day; How heavily it rolled away—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21941841_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
