. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, arism was preferableto pagan civilization, for they had more respect for marriage than tlie Romansand Greeks, held female chastity in higher esteem, had more regard for theirpledged word and were not so atrociously cniel. * Description of British Guiana, .Schonil)uick. 1S40. London: Wanfleiings in SouthAmerica, Waterton, 1839, London. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EEPOET. 73 The most ancient civilized peoples, the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Assyrians,Persians, Chinese, Phoenicians, Chaldeans and Hindoos had no savage ancestors,or, if they had, tradition has no memory o
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, arism was preferableto pagan civilization, for they had more respect for marriage than tlie Romansand Greeks, held female chastity in higher esteem, had more regard for theirpledged word and were not so atrociously cniel. * Description of British Guiana, .Schonil)uick. 1S40. London: Wanfleiings in SouthAmerica, Waterton, 1839, London. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EEPOET. 73 The most ancient civilized peoples, the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Assyrians,Persians, Chinese, Phoenicians, Chaldeans and Hindoos had no savage ancestors,or, if they had, tradition has no memory of it. We learn from the researches of Captain Darhry, who for many years wasFrench Consul at Hang-Iveou and a diligent student of Chinese history, thatunder the dynasty of Chin-nong, three thousand years before the Redemption,all Chinese documents and ancient records in writing were collected, codified andtranscribed on parchment, and this was done at a time when the tribes of Europewere barbarians according to the researches of Le Baron.*. Statue of a man in the Gizeh Museum,(Vth Egyptian dynasty), 4000 yearsago. Photogiaplied bv Emi] Brugsch-Bey. The heroic age of India comprised a very long period, and, writes Hessler,the beginning of this period is lost in an immensity of time; though we knowthat it ended about one thousand years before Christ. All of which goes toshow that the people who wandered furthest from the parent home of the race,where all were of one tongue and one speech, fell the lowest, while others whoremained nearer the original seats of the race retained their civilization. * La Medecine Chez les Chinois, P. Darbiv, Paris, A. 74 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. NO INTELLECTUAL PKOGEESS. Moreover, the assiuiiption b}- the Progressives that human progress is inevitableis altogether without any support from history. All the records we have of thegreat empires of the past furnish us no proofs of their progress in intellect or inarts, or of any permanent advance in
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