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accumulated knowledge. 56 As Sir J. Lubbock has well 

 observed, "it is not too much to say that the horrible 

 " dread of unknown evil hansrs like a thick cloud over 

 " savage life, and embitters every pleasure." These 

 miserable and indirect consequences of our highest 

 faculties may be compared with the incidental and 

 occasional mistakes of the instincts of the lower animals. 



56 'Prehistoric Times,' 2nd edit. p. 571. In this work (at p. 553) 

 there will be found an excellent account of the many strange and 

 capricious customs of savages. 



