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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  representing 
  the 
  aboriginal 
  condition 
  of 
  Man 
  ? 
  

   Is 
  it 
  not 
  certain 
  that 
  whatever 
  advances 
  

   towards 
  civilization 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  

   among 
  their 
  progenitors, 
  such 
  advances 
  must 
  

   necessarily 
  have 
  been 
  lost 
  under 
  the 
  conditions 
  

   to 
  which 
  their 
  children 
  are 
  reduced? 
  Sir 
  J. 
  

   Lubbock 
  urges, 
  in 
  reply 
  to 
  Whately, 
  that 
  

   the 
  low 
  condition 
  of 
  Australian 
  savages 
  affords 
  

   no 
  proof 
  whatever 
  that 
  they 
  could 
  not 
  raise 
  

   themselves, 
  because 
  the 
  materials 
  of 
  improve- 
  

   ment 
  are 
  wanting 
  in 
  that 
  country, 
  which 
  

   affords 
  no 
  cereals, 
  nor 
  animals 
  capable 
  of 
  

   useful 
  domestication. 
  But 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  

   does 
  not 
  perceive 
  that 
  the 
  same 
  argument 
  

   which 
  shows 
  how 
  improvement 
  could 
  not 
  

   possibly 
  be 
  attained, 
  shows 
  also 
  how 
  degra- 
  

   dation 
  could 
  not 
  possibly 
  be 
  avoided. 
  If 
  

  

  