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  AUSTRALIANS. 
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  with 
  the 
  few 
  resources 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  it 
  was 
  

   impossible 
  for 
  savages 
  to 
  rise, 
  it 
  follows 
  that 
  

   with 
  those 
  same 
  resources 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  

   impossible 
  for 
  a 
  half-civilized 
  race 
  not 
  to 
  

   fall. 
  And 
  as 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  again, 
  unless 
  we 
  

   are 
  to 
  suppose 
  a 
  separate 
  Adam 
  and 
  Eve 
  

   for 
  Van 
  Diemen's 
  Land, 
  its 
  natives 
  must 
  

   originally 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  one 
  or 
  other 
  of 
  

   the 
  great 
  continents 
  where 
  both 
  corn 
  and 
  

   cattle 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  had, 
  it 
  follows 
  that 
  the 
  

   low 
  condition 
  of 
  these 
  natives 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  

   likely 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  degradation 
  

   than 
  of 
  primeval 
  barbarism. 
  Man 
  as 
  an 
  

   animal 
  does 
  not 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  

   Australia. 
  The 
  scientific 
  evidence, 
  therefore, 
  

   is 
  conclusive 
  that 
  he 
  came 
  to 
  it 
  from 
  other 
  

   lands. 
  But 
  it 
  is 
  highly 
  improbable 
  that 
  the 
  

  

  