﻿CAUSES 
  OF 
  DEGRADATION. 
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  primeval 
  migrations 
  of 
  our 
  race. 
  On 
  the 
  con- 
  

   trary, 
  these 
  are 
  facts 
  which 
  form 
  the 
  next 
  

   step 
  in 
  the 
  argument 
  I 
  am 
  now 
  maintaining 
  

   — 
  a 
  step 
  which 
  goes 
  far 
  to 
  connect 
  the 
  pos- 
  

   sibility 
  of 
  degradation 
  with 
  the 
  known 
  causes 
  

   which 
  have 
  operated, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  

   nature 
  of 
  things 
  must 
  have 
  operated, 
  in 
  

   producing 
  it. 
  

  

  For 
  it 
  matters 
  not 
  which 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  theories 
  

   we 
  adopt 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  Origin 
  of 
  the 
  

   Human 
  Race, 
  whether 
  we 
  suppose 
  it 
  to 
  have 
  

   proceeded 
  from 
  one 
  or 
  from 
  two, 
  or 
  even 
  

   from 
  several 
  different 
  centres 
  of 
  creation 
  ; 
  it 
  

   matters 
  not 
  whether 
  we 
  suppose 
  with 
  Sir 
  J. 
  

   Lubbock 
  that 
  the 
  "first 
  being 
  worthy 
  to 
  be 
  

   called 
  a 
  Man 
  " 
  was 
  born 
  of 
  some 
  inferior 
  

   creature, 
  or 
  whether 
  we 
  believe 
  with 
  Whately, 
  

  

  