FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO IT. 133 



or ignorant of God. This is a fundamental 

 objection to the whole scope of Sir J. Lubbock's 

 argument. It interposes an impassable gulf 

 between his premises and his conclusion. 



But there is another objection equally- 

 fundamental. Traces or remains of barbarism, 

 properly so called, that is, traces of customs 

 savage or immoral, in the usages of civilized 

 nations, may be an indication of the fact that 

 those nations, or the races from which they 

 sprang, have passed through a stage of 

 barbarism. But it affords no presumption 

 whatever that barbarism was the Primeval 

 Condition of Man, any more than the traces 

 of Feudalism in the laws of modern Europe 

 prove that feudal principles were born with 

 the Human Race. All such customs may 



