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primeval migrations of our race. On the con- 

 trary, these are facts which form the next 

 step in the argument I am now maintaining 

 — a step which goes far to connect the pos- 

 sibility of degradation with the known causes 

 which have operated, and in the very 

 nature of things must have operated, in 

 producing it. 



For it matters not which of the two theories 

 we adopt in regard to the Origin of the 

 Human Race, whether we suppose it to have 

 proceeded from one or from two, or even 

 from several different centres of creation; it 

 matters not whether we suppose with- Sir J. 

 Lubbock that the "first being worthy to be 

 called a Man " was born of some inferior 

 creature, or whether we believe with Whately, 



