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  NECESSARILY 
  INDEFINITE. 
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  different 
  paths 
  of 
  investigation, 
  and 
  all 
  

   tending 
  to 
  one 
  general 
  result. 
  

  

  That 
  result, 
  however, 
  is 
  necessarily 
  inde- 
  

   finite, 
  and 
  cannot 
  be 
  expressed 
  in 
  years. 
  Of 
  

   the 
  evidence 
  from 
  the 
  dispersion 
  of 
  the 
  

   Human 
  Race, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  fairly 
  said 
  that 
  we 
  

   do 
  not 
  know 
  how 
  rapidly 
  Man 
  may 
  have 
  

   spread 
  when 
  the 
  beasts 
  of 
  the 
  chase 
  were 
  yet 
  

   unacquainted 
  with 
  his 
  destructive 
  powers, 
  

   when 
  they 
  probably 
  swarmed 
  in 
  innumerable 
  

   herds, 
  and 
  when 
  from 
  their 
  tameness 
  they 
  

  

  m 
  

  

  must 
  have 
  fallen 
  an 
  easy 
  prey. 
  Of 
  the 
  

   evidence 
  from 
  Language 
  it 
  may 
  again 
  be 
  said 
  

   that 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  how 
  rapidly 
  the 
  forms 
  

   of 
  human 
  speech 
  may 
  have 
  altered 
  among 
  

   tribes 
  wandering 
  and 
  unsettled, 
  rapidly 
  

   changing 
  place, 
  and 
  as 
  rapidly 
  accommodating 
  

  

  