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  OF 
  SAVAGE 
  SKILL. 
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  of 
  mineral 
  substances 
  suitable 
  for 
  the 
  purpose. 
  

   That 
  skill 
  is 
  also 
  eminently 
  displayed 
  in 
  the 
  

   use 
  made 
  of 
  those 
  stone 
  implements 
  after 
  

   they 
  had 
  been 
  fashioned. 
  The 
  smaller 
  imple- 
  

   ments 
  of 
  bone, 
  or 
  of 
  horn, 
  or 
  of 
  wood, 
  which 
  

   the 
  stone 
  knives 
  and 
  hatchets 
  were 
  employed 
  

   to 
  make, 
  are 
  often 
  highly 
  ingenious, 
  and 
  

   sometimes 
  eminently 
  beautiful. 
  The 
  truth 
  is 
  

   that 
  high 
  qualities 
  of 
  reasoning 
  and 
  ready 
  

   faculties 
  of 
  observation 
  are 
  called 
  forth 
  in 
  

   the 
  inverse 
  ratio 
  of 
  the 
  acquired 
  knowledge 
  

   with 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  provided 
  and 
  from 
  which 
  

   they 
  start. 
  The 
  great 
  ingenuity 
  and 
  resource 
  

   shown 
  by 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  rudest 
  tribes 
  in 
  their 
  

   weapons, 
  and 
  the 
  sense 
  of 
  beauty 
  evinced 
  by 
  

   them 
  in 
  the 
  choice 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  invention 
  of 
  

   ornamental 
  forms, 
  have 
  hardly 
  been 
  suf- 
  

  

  