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necessity and a delight. But I set still less 

 value on the arguments of Sir J. Lubbock, 

 that Primeval Man must have been born in 

 a state of "utter barbarism," on the ground 

 that this is the actual condition of the 

 outcasts of our race, or that industrial know- 

 ledge has advanced from small beginnings, 

 or that there are traces of rude customs 

 among many nations now highly civilized. 

 None of these arguments afford any proof 

 whatever, or even any reasonable presumption, 

 in favour of the conclusion which they are 

 employed to support : first, because along 

 with a complete ignorance of the Arts it is 

 quite possible that there may have been a • 

 higher knowledge of God, and a closer 

 communion with Him ; secondly, because 



