﻿IO 
  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  his 
  own 
  character 
  and 
  conduct 
  before 
  God 
  — 
  

   " 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  exercise 
  myself 
  in 
  things 
  too 
  high 
  

   for 
  me." 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  we 
  must 
  remem- 
  

   ber 
  that 
  in 
  nothing 
  has 
  the 
  human 
  race 
  been 
  

   more 
  liable 
  to 
  the 
  delusions 
  of 
  superstition 
  

   than 
  in 
  the 
  conception 
  of 
  the 
  matters 
  which 
  

   were 
  to 
  be 
  held, 
  or 
  were 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  held, 
  as 
  

   forbidden 
  to 
  investigation. 
  Those 
  physical 
  

   laws 
  of 
  nature 
  which 
  are 
  now 
  so 
  familiar 
  to 
  

   us 
  as 
  the 
  peculiar 
  field 
  of 
  observation 
  and 
  

   discovery 
  — 
  a 
  field 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  march 
  of 
  in- 
  

   tellect 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  rapid 
  and 
  so 
  triumphant 
  — 
  

   were 
  once 
  held 
  by 
  the 
  early 
  Greek 
  philo- 
  

   sophers 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  most 
  secret 
  things 
  

   of 
  God. 
  They 
  thought, 
  perhaps 
  not 
  un- 
  

   naturally, 
  that 
  a 
  region 
  which 
  lay, 
  or 
  seemed 
  

   to 
  lie, 
  so 
  much 
  nearer 
  to 
  themselves, 
  even 
  

  

  