Note 2 — Chapter XI · THE INTELLECTUAL EFFECT OF MANUAL TRAINING.

“But if we contrast this stationary aspect of moral truths with the progressive aspect of intellectual truths, the difference is, indeed, startling.... These are to every educated man recognized and notorious facts, and the inference to be drawn from them is immediately obvious. Since civilization is the product of moral and intellectual agencies, and since that product is constantly changing, it evidently cannot be regulated by the stationary agent; because when surrounding circumstances are unchanged, a stationary agent can only produce a stationary effect. The only other agent is the intellectual one, and that this is the real mover may be proved in two distinct ways: first, because being, as we have already seen, either moral or intellectual, and being, as we have also seen, not moral, it must be intellectual; and secondly, because the intellectual principle has an activity and a capacity for adaptation which, as I undertake to show, is quite sufficient to account for the extraordinary progress that, during several centuries, Europe has continued to make.”—Buckle’s “History of Civilization,” Vol. I., p. 130. D. Appleton & Co., 1864.