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of Species. Similar materials have been unearthed 

 from every part of the globe habitable once or 

 inhabited now. They confirm the speculations of 

 Lucretius as to a universal makeshift with stone, bone, 

 horn, and such-like accessible or pliable substances 

 during the ages that preceded the discovery of metals. 

 Therefore, the existence of a Stone Age at one 

 period or another, is an established canon of archaeol- 

 ogical science. From this we are able to draw the 

 inference that man's primitive condition was that 

 which corresponds to the lowest type extant, the 

 Australian and Papuan ; that the farther back en- 

 quiry is pushed such culture as exists is found to 

 have been preceded by barbarism ; and that the 

 savage races of to-day represent not a degrada- 

 tion to which man, as the result of a fall from 

 primeval purity and Eden-like ease, has sunk, but 

 a condition out of which all races above the savage 

 have emerged 



While Prehistoric Archaeology, with its enormous 

 mass of 'material remains gathered from ' dens and 

 caves of the earth/ from primitive work-shops, from 

 rude tombs and temples, thus adds its testimony to 

 the ' great cloud of witnesses ' ; immaterial remains, 

 potent as embodying the thought of man, are brought 

 by the twin sciences of Comparative Mythology and 

 Folk-lore, and Comparative Theology remains of 

 paramount value, because existing to this day in 

 hitherto unsuspected form, as survivals in beliefs and 

 rites and customs Readers of Tylor's Primitive 

 Culture, with its wealth of facts and their significance ; 

 and of Lyall's Asiatic Studies, wherein is described 

 the making of myths to this day in the heart of 



