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which I look upon as incapable of positive 

 proof. 



The question of Man's Primitive Condition 

 must therefore be approached from another 

 side. We can only hope to reach the Un- 

 known by reasoning from the Known ; and, 

 starting from this ground, we have the 

 indisputable fact that Man is capable of 

 Degradation. This is a subject which, as 

 it appears to me, Sir J. Lubbock deals 

 with in the most cursory and superficial 

 manner. In fact, as far as it is possible 

 to do so, he avoids it altogether. In his 

 work on " Prehistoric Man " a single page 

 exhausts all he has to say on one of the most 

 prominent facts of History and of Nature, and 

 this page is headed, " No Evidence of Degra- 



