Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 40: June 15, 1905 At no time, in our belief, has savagery in its lower manifestations been univer salon this planet. The only time when there was but one state or condition of mankind, the wide world' over, was when the laws of God were everywhere respect ed and observed, that is to say, between the time of the fall of Adam and 'the mur der of Abel, and in the days immediately succeeding the deluge, before apostasy began to crop out, among the chil dren of Noah. Such a time also existed all over the American continent after the visit of the crucified Redeemer to the Nephites; but a very different condition prevailed among the various peoples and nations on the eastern continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.