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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN, 
  

  

  inconvenient 
  obligation. 
  But 
  implicitly, 
  if 
  not 
  

   explicitly, 
  the 
  Savage-theory 
  and 
  the 
  reasoning 
  

   in 
  support 
  of 
  it 
  assume 
  that 
  civilization 
  con- 
  

   sists 
  mainly 
  if 
  not 
  exclusively 
  in 
  a 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  the 
  arts. 
  Knowledge, 
  for 
  example, 
  or 
  igno- 
  

   rance, 
  of 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  metals, 
  are, 
  as 
  we 
  shall 
  

   see, 
  characteristics 
  on 
  which 
  great 
  stress 
  is 
  

   laid. 
  Now, 
  as 
  regards 
  this 
  point, 
  as 
  Whately 
  

   truly 
  says, 
  the 
  narrative 
  of 
  Genesis 
  distinctly 
  

   states 
  that 
  this 
  kind 
  of 
  knowledge 
  did 
  not 
  

   belong 
  to 
  Mankind 
  at 
  first, 
  but 
  was 
  the 
  fruit 
  

   of 
  subsequent 
  discovery, 
  through 
  the 
  ordinary 
  

   agency 
  of 
  those 
  mental 
  gifts 
  with 
  which 
  Man 
  

   at 
  his 
  creation 
  was 
  endowed. 
  It 
  is 
  assumed 
  

   in 
  the 
  Savage-theory 
  that 
  the 
  presence 
  or 
  

   absence 
  of 
  this 
  knowledge 
  stands 
  in 
  close 
  

   and 
  natural 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  presence 
  or 
  

  

  