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ability and success, that any personal bitterness 

 on the part of even their keenest opponents was 

 an impossibility. 



In spite of, or conceivably by reason of, his 

 recent election to Parliament, there are few years 

 which are marked by such scanty records of his 

 untiring industry as those at which we have now 

 arrived. He would seem not to have found the 

 time to write the record. In 1870 he had pub- 

 lished his important work on the Origin of 

 Civilisation, which had a great success. His 

 British publishers write : — " We have sold 725 

 copies already (1000 printed), besides the 75 

 presentation copies ! ! This is grand ! We have 

 sent to the printers to ascertain how much they 

 still have in type, for I think there can be no 

 doubt of our having soon to reprint." 



We may venture to see in this, his second large 

 book on the early condition of man, an advance 

 on that earlier volume, Prehistoric Times. The 

 latter had been more closely concerned with facts 

 and data ; in the new work he indulges far more 

 freely in deduction and speculation as to primitive 

 man's initial mastery of the forces of nature and 

 his experiments in sociology and religion. In 

 regard to the last Sir John was disposed to give 

 a very large place to dreams as the source of re- 

 ligious suggestion and conjecture to man in the 

 first phases of his evolution. " What happens," 

 he imagines the savage asking himself, " to the 

 spirit during sleep ? The body lies lifeless, and 

 the savage not unnaturally concludes that the 

 spirit has left it. In this he is confirmed by the 

 phenomena of dreams, which consequently to 



