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with not at all unfolded or exercised by- 

 education — never did, and never can, raise 

 themselves from that condition." Therefore, 

 " according to the present course of things, 

 the first introducer of civilization among 

 savages is, and must be, man in a more 

 improved state." But as *' in the beginning 

 of the human race there .was no man to 

 effect it," this must have been the work of 

 another Being. " There must have been, in 

 short, something of a revelation made to the 

 first or to some subsequent generation of our 

 species." The conclusion is that, as Man 

 must have had a Divine Creator, it seems 

 equally certain that, to some extent also, 

 he must have had a Divine Instructor. 



This is the argument which Sir J. Lubbock 

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