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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  often 
  as 
  is 
  popularly 
  supposed, 
  men 
  have 
  been 
  

   warned 
  off 
  particular 
  branches 
  of 
  physical 
  in- 
  

   quiry, 
  in 
  the 
  supposed 
  interests 
  of 
  Religion. 
  

   But 
  constantly 
  and 
  habitually, 
  men 
  are 
  now 
  

   warned 
  from 
  many 
  branches 
  of 
  inquiry, 
  both 
  

   physical 
  and 
  psychological, 
  in 
  the 
  interests 
  — 
  

   real 
  enough 
  — 
  of 
  the 
  Positive 
  Philosophy 
  ! 
  

   " 
  Whatever," 
  says 
  Mr. 
  Lewes, 
  "is 
  inaccessible 
  

   to 
  reason, 
  should 
  be 
  strictly 
  interdicted 
  to 
  

   research." 
  Here 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  true 
  ring 
  of 
  

   the 
  old 
  sacerdotal 
  interdicts. 
  Who 
  is 
  to 
  

   define 
  beforehand 
  what 
  is, 
  and 
  what 
  is 
  not, 
  

   "inaccessible 
  to 
  reason?" 
  Are 
  we 
  to 
  take 
  

   such 
  a 
  definition 
  on 
  trust 
  from 
  the 
  priests 
  of 
  

   this 
  new 
  philosophy 
  ? 
  They 
  tell 
  us 
  that 
  all 
  

   proofs 
  of 
  Mind 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  of 
  the 
  universe, 
  

   all 
  evidences 
  of 
  purpose, 
  all 
  conceptions 
  of 
  

  

  