20 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



that this first man was born from some pre- 

 existing creature not worthy to be so called), 

 is most naturally connected with the farther 

 theory that his mental condition was one of 

 *' utter barbarism." But this is not at all a 

 necessary consequence. The first man, how- 

 ever created, may have had special knowledge 

 conveyed to him as well as a special material 

 organization. Special powers of acquiring 

 knowledge he certainly must have had, since 

 we know that these are inseparably connected 

 with the organization which made him 

 ** worthy to be called a man." The two 

 questions, therefore, of the Origin of Man, 

 and of his Primitive Condition, are clearly 

 separable. In like manner, as regards Anti- 

 quity, the question of Time has no neces- 



