You doubtless know that the polar regions even in the original attitude of the earth, owing to their receiving the rays of the sun obliquely, must have possessed a less genial climate than the parts of the orb that lie between the arctic and the antarctic circles.

This was a wise provision of Providence to prevent a premature occupation of those chosen regions, or to cause them to be left uninhabited, until mind had so far mastered matter, as to have brought into existence the first monikin." "May I venture to ask to what epoch you refer the appearance of the first of your species ?" "To the monikin epocha, beyond a doubt, sir--but if you mean to ask in what year of the world this event took place, I should answer, about the year 4017.

It is true that certain of our writers affect to think that divers men were approaching to the sublimation of the monikin mind, previously to this period; but the better opinion is, that these cases were no more than what are termed premonitory.

Thus, Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Aristotle, Euclid, Zeno, Diogenes, and Seneca, were merely so many admonishing types of the future condition of man, indicating their near approach to the monikin, or to the final translation." "And Epicurus--" "Was an exaggeration of the material principle, that denoted the retrogression of a large portion of the race towards brutality and matter.

These phenomena are still of daily occurrence." "Do you then hold the opinion, for instance, Dr.Reasono, that Socrates is now a monikin philosopher, with his brain unravelled and rendered logically consecutive, and that Epicurus is transformed perchance into a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros, with tusks, horns, and hide ?" "You quite mistake our dogmas, Sir John.