Statistics carefully kept show that the mean length of human life has been remarkably increased.

In the eighteenth century it was but twenty-three years; from 1825 to 1830 it was thirty-two years and eight months; and since 1864, thirty-seven years and six months.
IV.

THE RELATION OF SANITARY SCIENCE TO RELIGION.
The question may now arise whether this progress in sanitary science has been purchased at any real sacrifice of religion in its highest sense.
One piece of recent history indicates an answer to this question.
The Second Empire in France had its head in Napoleon III, a noted Voltairean.

At the climax of his power he determined to erect an Academy of Music which should be the noblest building of its kind.

It was projected on a scale never before known, at least in modern times, and carried on for years, millions being lavished upon it.