PART I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



A T the meeting, in 1867, of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, a paper was read by Sir J. 

 Lubbock upon "The Early Condition of 

 Mankind." It purports to be a reply to 

 a lecture on the " Origin of Civilization " by 

 Dr. Whately, the late Archbishop of Dublin, 

 which was published in 1854. The Arch- 

 bishop's position is shortly this, — that mere 

 savages — that is to say, "men in the lowest 

 degree, or even anything approaching to the 

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