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“« The existence, therefore, of the various instruments in use 
among the Africans, and other partially-civilised people, 
indicates the communication of instruction at some period 
from some Being superior to man himself. 
“The art of making fire is the same in India as in Africa. 
The smelting furnaces for reducing iron and copper from the 
ores are also similar. 
“Yellow hematite, which bears not the slightest resem- 
blance, either in colour or weight, to. the metal, is employed 
near Kolobeng for the production ‘of iron. 
“‘ Malachite, the precious green stone, used in civilised life 
for vases, would never be suspected by the uninstructed to 
be a rich ore of copper, and yet it is extensively smelted for 
rings and other ornaments in the heart of Africa. A copper 
bar of native manufacture, four feet long, was offered to us 
for sale at Chinsambas. 
“These arts are monuments attesting the fact that some 
instruction, from above must, at some time or other, have been 
supplied to mankind; and, as Archbishop Whately says, 
‘the most probable conclusion is that man, when first 
created, or very shortly afterwards, was advanced by the 
Creator himself to a state above that of a mere savage.’ 
“The argument for an original revelation to man, though 
quite independent of the Bible history, tends to confirm that 
history. 
“Tt is of the same nature with this, that man could not have 
made himself, and therefore must have had a Divine Creator. 
Mankind could not have civilised themselves, and therefore 
must have had a super-human Instructor. 
“In connection with this subject, it 1s remarkable that, 
throughout successive generations, no change has taken place 
in the form of the various inventions. 
‘Hammers, tongs, hoes, axes, adzes, handles to them; 
needles, bows and arrows, with the mode of feathering the 
latter ; spears for killing game, with spear-heads having what 
is termed ‘‘ dish” on both sides, to give them when thrown 
the rotatory motion of rifle-balls ;*.the arts of spinning and 
weaving, with that of pounding and steeping the inner bark 
of a tree till it serves as clothing; millstones for grinding 
corn into meal; the manufacture of the same kinds of pots, or _ 
chatties, as in India; the art of cooking, of brewing beer, 
and straining it, as was done in ancient Keypt ; fish- hooks, 
fishing and hunting nets, fish baskets and weirs, the same as 
* The same is seen in American arrows—rifled arrows. Article 6, Prin- 
cipal Dawson’s “ Old World and New,” in The Leisure Hour. 
