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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  a 
  condition 
  of 
  " 
  utter 
  barbarism," 
  if 
  he 
  were 
  

   at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  conscious 
  of 
  moral 
  obliga- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  obedient 
  to 
  them. 
  It 
  is, 
  of 
  course, 
  

   open 
  to 
  a 
  theorist 
  to 
  assume 
  that 
  the 
  First 
  

   Man 
  was 
  both 
  ignorant 
  and 
  bad, 
  or 
  that 
  the 
  

   sense 
  of 
  right 
  and 
  wrong 
  was 
  rudimentary 
  

   and 
  wholly 
  uninformed. 
  But 
  all 
  I 
  desire 
  to 
  

   point 
  out 
  here 
  is, 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  necessary 
  

   connection 
  between 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  mere 
  childhood 
  

   in 
  respect 
  to 
  knowledge, 
  and 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  " 
  utter 
  

   barbarism" 
  — 
  words 
  which, 
  if 
  they 
  have 
  any 
  

   definite 
  meaning 
  at 
  all, 
  imply 
  the 
  lowest 
  

   moral, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  lowest 
  intellectual 
  con- 
  

   dition. 
  Consequently 
  no 
  proof, 
  if 
  proof 
  there 
  

   be, 
  that 
  Primeval 
  Man 
  was 
  ignorant 
  of 
  the 
  

   industrial 
  arts 
  can 
  afford 
  the 
  smallest 
  pre- 
  

   sumption 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  also 
  ignorant 
  of 
  duty 
  

  

  