HUMAN nature, per se, is one of the most complicated problems that the terrestrial globe presents us with. The student who attempts to solve it, finds himself for ever confronted with new aspects, new phases and factors that he never calculated upon, until, with a sense of utter despair, he is inclined to exclaim, “The human brain is utterly incapable of understanding that which is within itself.” The world grows old; things and manners change; our mode of life is different to that of our forefathers, as theirs was different to that of primitive man. And yet human nature changes not, except in so far as external signs go; its primordial elements are precisely the same.
per se,The cunning of savage man is replaced by the smirk hypocrisy of civilization, and wickedness is ever with is. It w
