﻿PART 
  I. 
  

  

  INTRODUCTORY. 
  

  

  A 
  T 
  the 
  meeting, 
  in 
  1867, 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  

   Science, 
  a 
  paper 
  was 
  read 
  by 
  Sir 
  J. 
  

   Lubbock 
  upon 
  "The 
  Early 
  Condition 
  of 
  

   Mankind." 
  It 
  purports 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  reply 
  to 
  

   a 
  lecture 
  on 
  the 
  " 
  Origin" 
  of 
  Civilization 
  " 
  by 
  

   Dr. 
  Whately, 
  the 
  late 
  Archbishop 
  of 
  Dublin, 
  

   which 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  1854. 
  The 
  Arch- 
  

   bishop's 
  position 
  is 
  shortly 
  this, 
  — 
  that 
  mere 
  

   savages 
  — 
  that 
  is 
  to 
  say, 
  "men 
  in 
  the 
  lowest 
  

   degree, 
  or 
  even 
  anything 
  approaching 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  B 
  

  

  