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all amount ? If the Professor, as we feel tolerably 

 sure he does not, means by " the masked wizard 

 of history " the Being whom we reverence as 

 " Factorem Coeli et Terrae, Visibilium omnium 

 et Invisibilium " we are prepared to discuss the 

 question with him and to admit that it may well 

 be argued that " God fulfils Himself in many 

 ways." 



But if this is not his view, and we cannot think 

 that it is, we must be pardoned if we say, as re- 

 spectfully as possible, that all this whirl of words, 

 full of sound but meaning nothing, might have 

 been condensed into the simple but honest phrase, 

 " I do not know what caused these savages to adopt 

 the system of exogamy." In which confession of 

 ignorance many, if not all, would feel disposed to 

 join with him. 



