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had received only very limited, and what 

 may be called elementary instruction, enough 

 merely to enable them to make further 

 advances afterwards by the exercise of their 

 natural powers." But how much was this 

 "enough?" And what is meant by "in- 

 struction," as distinguished from inborn or 

 intuitive powers of observation and of 

 reasoning ? May not this have been the 

 form in which the Creator first " instructed " 

 Man ? For here it is important to observe 

 that in direct proportion as we assume Man's 

 Primitive Condition to have been such as 

 to require elementary teaching, in the same 

 proportion do we suppose that his primitive 

 condition in respect to intellect was low and 

 weak. Accordingly, Whately assumes as an 



