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that the development of humanity can be legitimately or 

 safely investigated as an anthropological subject, without 

 reference to the primitive condition of man as presented to us 

 in the revealed record. 



12. As we deduce all the personal and social misery of 

 man on this globe from his erroneous choice of action through 

 neglect of his higher principle of belief, so in like manner 

 we are bound to attribute to the same source the causes 

 which have produced all the so-called forms of savagism and 

 imperfect civilisation, as well as the so-called imperfect forms 

 of human structure as presented to us in our ethnological or 

 archaeological inquiries. 



13. Finally, I hold that liability of man to disease is 

 intimately related to the neglect of the dictates of his higher 

 principle.* 



* The reader will find a fuller statement of the author's views on this mat- 

 ter in the "Address to the Graduates" and in that to the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society. — Ens. 



