﻿DEFINITION 
  OF 
  TERMS 
  NEEDED. 
  29 
  

  

  is 
  a 
  special 
  peculiarity 
  of 
  the 
  account 
  that 
  

   those 
  causes 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  gone 
  on 
  in 
  an 
  

   accelerating 
  ratio 
  until 
  the 
  Flood. 
  Even 
  after 
  

   that 
  event 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  immunity 
  from 
  the 
  ope- 
  

   ration 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  causes, 
  and 
  existing 
  races, 
  

   therefore, 
  may 
  have 
  passed 
  through 
  stages 
  of 
  

   any 
  degree 
  of 
  barbarism 
  since 
  the 
  days 
  of 
  

   Adam 
  without 
  involving 
  any 
  necessary 
  incon- 
  

   sistency 
  whatever 
  with 
  the 
  Mosaic 
  account. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  farther 
  to 
  be 
  observed 
  that 
  writers 
  

   on 
  the 
  Primitive 
  Condition 
  of 
  Man 
  are 
  

   generally 
  guilty 
  of 
  the 
  oversight 
  of 
  forget- 
  

   ting 
  to 
  define 
  the 
  sense 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  use 
  

   the 
  words 
  " 
  civilized 
  " 
  and 
  " 
  uncivilized/' 
  This 
  

   is 
  a 
  strange 
  oversight 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  such 
  a 
  

   logician 
  as 
  Dr. 
  Whately. 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  

   naturally 
  enough 
  feels 
  himself 
  relieved 
  from 
  an 
  

  

  