﻿PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  has 
  undertaken 
  to 
  refute. 
  His 
  conclusion 
  is, 
  

   that 
  the 
  " 
  primitive 
  condition 
  of 
  mankind 
  was 
  

   one 
  of 
  utter 
  barbarism 
  ; 
  " 
  that 
  from 
  this 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  certain 
  races 
  have 
  independently 
  raised 
  

   themselves 
  ; 
  and, 
  of 
  course, 
  that, 
  instead 
  of 
  

   existing 
  savages 
  being 
  the 
  degenerate 
  descen- 
  

   dants 
  of 
  ancestors 
  who 
  were 
  more 
  advanced, 
  

   all 
  races 
  now 
  civilized 
  are 
  the 
  children 
  of 
  

   men 
  who 
  were 
  once 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  low 
  con- 
  

   dition. 
  A 
  further 
  conclusion, 
  though 
  not 
  

   formally 
  asserted, 
  is 
  plainly 
  indicated, 
  viz. 
  this, 
  

   — 
  that 
  the 
  "utter 
  barbarism 
  " 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  man 
  

   was 
  itself 
  an 
  advance 
  on 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  

   some 
  progenitor. 
  I 
  infer 
  that 
  this 
  idea 
  is 
  

   intended 
  to 
  be 
  conveyed 
  when 
  the 
  " 
  first 
  

   men" 
  are 
  explained 
  to 
  mean 
  the 
  " 
  first 
  beings 
  

   worthy 
  to 
  be 
  so 
  called." 
  

  

  