154 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



coVerers compared with whom, as regards the 

 value of their ideas to the world, Faraday 

 and Wheatstone are but the inventors of 

 ingenious toys. 



It may possibly be true, as Whately argues, 

 that Man never could have discovered these 

 things without divine instruction. If so, it is 

 fatal to the Savage-theory. But it is equally 

 fatal to that Theory if we assume the opposite 

 position, and suppose that the noblest dis- 

 coveries ever made by Man were made by 

 him in primeval times. 



On these, as well as on other grounds, I 

 have never attached much importance to 

 Whately 's argument. I do not mean to say 

 that the conclusion to which it points may 

 not possibly be true, but it is a conclusion 



