'WE can now pause to summarise the whole of our lessons, make a
mental stocktaking, and in retrospect retrace our journey —a
Journey through the long avenue from prehistoric time, "a time
when no man knows," to the known, experienced events of modern
days. The evidence accumulated and pieced together by arch
groping in the past, misty traditions of ancient peoples, and
the surer written records of later times have all lent us their
aid. Brief references were made to the Stone and Iron Age, the
coming of the Aryans east to Europe, of how our own particular
country emerged upon the stage of written history with the
coming of the Romans, and of how Saxon, Dane, and Norman
followed, and finally lost their racial identity in later times.
The geologist told us of the struggle between the elements in
the earth’s formation. The biologist showed how individual
animals and species struggled with each other. And we passed on
to sociology and witnessed a struggle still proceeding. In this
struggle the new class and the o