l86 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



to the hopes and fears of men, it takes so 

 deep a hold on most minds, it is so great a 

 consolation in times of sorrow and sickness, 

 that I can hardly think any nation would 

 ever abandon it altogether." There are two 

 obvious replies to such reasoning : the first 

 is, that many false religions do not answer 

 to this description so far as regards their 

 self-recommending and consoling power ; the 

 second is, that neither does true religion 

 answer this description to those who are 

 corrupt and vicious. Belief in a God who is 

 " of purer eyes than to behold iniquity " is 

 a belief which bad men may not have liked 

 to cherish. As regards the first of these 

 two replies. Sir J. Lubbock himself bears 

 emphatic testimony to its force. In his work 



