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tribes who used them ; and secondly that 

 they are no index at all of the state of 

 civilization among other tribes who lived at 

 the same time in other portions of the globe. 

 The finding of flint implements for example, 

 however rude, in England, or in Denmark, or 

 in France, affords no evidence whatever of 

 the condition of the Industrial Arts in the 

 same age upon the banks of the Euphrates 

 or the Nile. 



There is one argument of Sir J. Lubbock 

 in favour of the Savage-theory, which I 

 observe with as much astonishment as that 

 which he expresses in reference to some of 

 the arguments of Whately. Sir J. Lubbock 

 says that some savages have been found who 

 have no religion at all. Such, he argues, 



