﻿FUNDAMENTAL 
  OBJECTIONS 
  TO 
  IT. 
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  or 
  ignorant 
  of 
  God. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  fundamental 
  

   objection 
  to 
  the 
  whole 
  scope 
  of 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock's 
  

   argument. 
  It 
  interposes 
  an 
  impassable 
  gulf 
  

   between 
  his 
  premises 
  and 
  his 
  conclusion. 
  

  

  But 
  there 
  is 
  another 
  objection 
  equally 
  

   fundamental. 
  Traces 
  or 
  remains 
  of 
  barbarism, 
  

   properly 
  so 
  called, 
  that 
  is, 
  traces 
  of 
  customs 
  

   savage 
  or 
  immoral, 
  in 
  the 
  usages 
  of 
  civilized 
  

   nations, 
  may 
  be 
  an 
  indication 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  

   those 
  nations, 
  or 
  the 
  races 
  from 
  which 
  they 
  

   sprang, 
  have 
  passed 
  through 
  a 
  stage 
  of 
  

   barbarism. 
  But 
  it 
  affords 
  no 
  presumption 
  

   whatever 
  that 
  barbarism 
  was 
  the 
  Primeval 
  

   Condition 
  of 
  Man, 
  any 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  traces 
  

   of 
  Feudalism 
  in 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  modern 
  Europe 
  

   prove 
  that 
  feudal 
  principles 
  were 
  born 
  with 
  

   the 
  Human 
  Race. 
  All 
  such 
  customs 
  may 
  

  

  