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with such phases of barbarism as he describes with 

 such loving minuteness. To the older historians 

 all races of men very far below the European 

 grade of culture seemed alike ; all were ignorantly 

 grouped together as " savages." Mr. Lewis Mor- 

 gan first showed the wide difference between true 

 savages, such as the Apaches and Bannocks on the 

 one hand, and barbarians with developed village 

 life, like the Five Nations and the Cherokees. The 

 latter tribes in the seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries exhibited social phenomena such as were 

 probably witnessed about the shores of the Medi- 

 terranean some seven or eight thousand years ear- 

 lier. If we carry our thoughts back to the time 

 that saw the building of the Great Pyramid, and 

 imagine civilized Egypt looking northward and 

 eastward upon tribes of white men with social 

 and political ideas not much more advanced than 

 those of Frontenac's red men, our picture will be 

 in its most essential features a correct one. What 

 would we not give for a historian who, with a 

 pen like that of Herodotus, could bring before us 

 the scenes of that primeval Greek world before 

 the cyclopean works at Tiryns were built, when the 

 ancestors of Solon and Aristides did not yet dwell 

 in neatly joinered houses and fasten their door- 

 latches with a thong, when the sacred city-state 



