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is a special peculiarity of the account that 

 those causes are said to have gone on in an 

 accelerating ratio until the Flood. Even after 

 that event there was no immunity from the ope- 

 ration of the same causes, and existing races, 

 therefore, may have passed through stages of 

 any degree of barbarism since the days of 

 Adam without involving any necessary incon- 

 sistency whatever with the Mosaic account. 



It is farther to be observed that writers 

 on the Primitive Condition of Man are 

 generally guilty of the oversight of forget- 

 ting to define the sense in which they use 

 the words " civilized " and " uncivilized." This 

 is a strange oversight on the part of such a 

 logician as Dr. Whately. Sir J. Lubbock 

 naturally enough feels himself relieved from an 



