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informed, and a creature who is both igno- 

 rant and vicious. Sir J. Lubbock speaks of 

 Primeval Man as having been in a condition 

 of " utter barbarism." But no one, speaking 

 philosophically, has a right to use such terms 

 as " barbarism " and " civilization " without 

 some definition of their meaning. What were 

 those Faculties which made the first creature 

 who possessed them " worthy to be called a 

 Man .''" A Mind capable of reason, disposed 

 to reason, and able to acquire, to accumulate, 

 and to transmit knowledge, — this is the dis- 

 tinctive attribute of Man. The first Being 

 "worthy to be so called," must have had such 

 a mind. But it could not properly be said of 

 such a Being, on the ground merely of his 

 ignorance of mechanical arts, that he was in 



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