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In some cases travelers have arrived at these views very much to 

 their own astonishment. Thus, Father DobritzhofFer says : " Theo- 

 logians agree in denying that any man in possession of his reason can, 

 without a crime, remain ignorant of God for any length of time. This 

 opinion I warmly defended in the University of Cordoba, where I 

 finished the four years' course of theology begun at Gratz, in Styria. 

 But what was my astonishment, when, on removing from thence to a 

 colony of Abipones, I found that the whole language of these savages 

 does not contain a single word which expresses God or a divinity. To 

 instruct them in religion it was necessary to borrow the Spanish word 

 for God, and insert into the catechism, ' Dios ecnam caogerik,' ' God, 

 the Creator of things.' " 



Those who assert that even the lowest savages believe in a Supreme 

 Deity, affirm that which is entirely contrary to the evidence. The 

 direct testimony of travelers on this point is indirectly corroborated by 

 their other statements. How, for instance, can a people who are 

 unable to count their own fingers, possibly raise their mind so far as 

 to admit even the rudiments of a religion? Again, fetish worship, 

 which is so widely prevalent in Africa, can hardly be called a religion. 

 And when the missionaries introduced a printing press into the Feegee, 

 "the heathen at once declared it to be a god." 



Glossary of a few Palceojitohgical Terms, the Accent and Pronunciation 

 of which are not obvious. By Prof. E. W. Claypole, of Antioch 

 College. 



I. — Brachiopoda, 



Athykis — Sig., without a door. Ety., Greek a, not or no, and Supc^, a 

 small door or ivindoiv, in allusion to the deltidium which, in this 

 genus, is obsolete. 



Fentamerus. — Sig., five paiied. Ety., Greek -e^^re, five, and /j.ep off, a 

 part, in allusion to the fifth small chamber occurring in the central 

 part of the shell. 



Atrypa. — Sig., without foramen. Ety., Greek a, not or no, and rpuTza, 

 a% opening. It is not easy to see why this name was given, as the 

 foramen is present in the species of this genus. It is one of Dai- 

 man's terms. Woodward, speaking of it, says : "The term 'atrypa,' 

 like all Dolman's names, is objectionable." 



