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again; and all alike show that we have never risen 

 higher than our origin, and those amongst us have 

 done best who have kept nearest to the level of 

 that. 



13. Let this suffice to sketch the geographical 

 outlines of our subject. We may now state the 

 methods which science adopts to form its 

 inductive conclusions. It endeavors to induction 

 find all the traces possible of human life 



prior to historic times. It deciphers and interprets 

 such traces, as indicative of the physical, intellect- 

 ual or social condition of the men who existed 

 then. These traces and indications of antecedent 

 human life are to be found in the nature of certain 

 objects imbedded in the soil, or otherwise pre- 

 served; they are also deciphered in the location, 

 situation, where such objects are met with undis- 

 turbed. 



14. The objects in question are, first, the fossil 

 relics of men themselves. These appertain to an- 

 thropology proper. Secondly, they are the fossil 

 relics of animals that lived with men; and these 

 pertain to palaeontology. In the third place, there 

 are weapons and utensils which men made and used 

 — articles of industry. The degree of perfection or 

 imperfection discernible in their make reflects upon 

 the degree of civilization which produced them. For 

 the material out of which they are made may have 

 been easier or harder to procure, as stone is easier 

 to get, or a bone, than bronze or iron. Or the 



