been the practical result of these dreamers to banish the distinction between "mine and thine"? What have the poor realized or benefited by the Communistic ideas preached by the Millenarians and the Cenobites, the Gnostics, Waldo's disciples, by the begging Friars, by the Taborites in Bohemia, by the Anabaptists in Germany, and by the Levellers in England ? How much nearer are we to the perfect society, painted as by an inspired dreamer in De Fione's "Eternal Gospel," "More's Utopia," Campanella's "Civitas Solis," Harrington's "Oceana," and Fenelon's "Salent"? No nearer, because they are but dreams. They are impracticable; they are not founded upon nature. They are pictures of society as certain men think it should be,-not an attempt, in accordance with nature's laws, to make society what it might be. Human society is governed by natural laws, which must be respected and obeyed. Like it or not, we must abide by it, that inexorable law of the " survival of the fittest," the law of -inequality." By this law, nations progress; equality means stagnation-a living death. Nature's means for making progress is effectual amongst living things because those best adapted to the circumstances in which they are placed get the upper hand in the struggle for life. The strongest, the bravest, the best armed, triumph, and gradually stamp out the weak and feeble; and thus the races become more perfect. In human society, the great end to be attained is the general welfare, and this is best effected by allowing the laws of nature to pursue their course, and not by endeavouring to introduce plans of reforms invented by men in opposition thereto. Ascertain the laws, and obey