Progress of Evil Since Sin Entered the World
The kind of progress which has been made in this lower world since sin entered, is thus set forth in the Phrenological Journal. About six thousand years of steady progress in this direction has brought the world to what it is; and a constantly accelerating speed has given it its present fearful velocity:— “Had there never been any transgression of the laws of being, humanity would now be perfect in all its developments; but, far away back in time, when reason and intellect began to take the place of instinct, and selfish policy to usurp the place of love, then evil originated; and in the transitional change which has since been slowly going on, mankind have run mad with vice, and so covered up their better natures in self-degrading abuses that they know not self, or its right and proper uses.”