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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt:... CHAPTER II. THE ADVANCE OF MATERIAL CIVILIZATION. The right proportion of the elements of civilization essential to true progress.--The advance of material civilization in increase of agriculture, manufacture, and trade, and the diffusion of the necessaries of life.--The security given by good government.--The need and hope of future advance. (I) The Mission thus entrusted to the English race in India may be shortly described as the advancement of civilization in the fullest sense of the word. Now this advance--including both the cultivation of the individual and the knitting of human society together, and requiring, accordingly, some harmonious development of liberty on the one hand, and of law and order freely obeyed on the other---is to us, as has been said, a "fellow-working with God." It is at once the acknowledgement and the service of His dispensation for the progress of humanity.. For ourselves it involves the lower blessedness of receiving the gifts of God; in our relation to others, and to the lower and weaker races of the world especially, it calls us to the higher blessedness of giving, which is the true Imitatio Dei. In both we are ruled under what Hooker has taught us to call the " Law Eternal, which God has set Himself to do all things by." Now these gifts of God to our daily life are material, intellectual, moral, spiritual. On the union of all these, and of all these in their right proportion and order, our true happiness and progress depend. If any one gift, even the highest, be taken to be all in all, the result is to break the full harmony of our nature, by stunting or perverting the development of some of its parts. But if the lower gifts--the material, for example, or the intellectual--be exalted to the highest place, the result is an...