22 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



often as is popularly supposed, men have been 

 warned off particular branches of physical in- 

 quiry, in the supposed interests of Religion. 

 But constantly and habitually, men are now 

 warned from many branches of inquiry, both 

 physical and psychological, in the interests — 

 real enough — of the Positive Philosophy! 

 "Whatever," says Mr. Lewes, "is inaccessible 

 to reason, should be strictly interdicted to 

 research." Here we have the true ring of 

 the old sacerdotal interdicts. Who is to 

 define beforehand what is, and what is not, 

 "inaccessible to reason.-*" 'Are we to take 

 such a definition on trust from the priests of 

 this new philosophy.'* They tell us that all 

 proofs of Mind in the order of the universe, 

 all evidences of purpose, all conceptions of 



