S an unsocial, selfish religion. If it is unsocial and selfi

T Egyptians. In North and South America the descendants of the
Spanish conquerers are poor representatives of those Castilians who,
under Pizarro and Cortez mastered the Peruvian and Mexican kingdoms,
and planted the civilization
of the old world in the new. Civilization is liable to decay, to
wane, to deteriorate, to sink so low that it may be a question
whether it

is any longer civilization. In the cases we have alluded to we have a
low degradation retaining evidences of something
higher. In comparative philology we have cases where it is presumed
by the best of critics that a higher state of civilization sank to
the lowest conceivable
state of heathenism. The race existing in Ceylon, known as the
"Weddas," is of this type. The language of the Weddas is regarded as
a base
descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech,
the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the
Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India. There are no savages of a
more debased type. They do not count beyond two or three; they have
no idea of letters; of all the animals the dog alone is domesticated;
their art consists in making bows and arrows and constructing ru