24 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



accessible to research ; and that the degree 

 in which any given subject is accessible to 

 research cannot be known until research has 

 been attempted. 



Within certain limits it is not open to dis- 

 pute that the early condition of Mankind is 

 accessible to research. Contemporary history 

 reaches back a certain way. Existing monu- 

 ments afford their evidence for a considerable 

 distance farther. Tradition has its own pro- 

 vince still more remote; and latterly Geology 

 and Archaeology have met upon common 

 ground — ground in which Man and the 

 Mammoth have been found together. 



It has not, however, been sufficiently ob- 

 served that the inquiry into the Primitive 

 Condition of Mankind resolves itself into three 



