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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  circumstances 
  of 
  his 
  arrival 
  in 
  the 
  Islands 
  

   were 
  such 
  as 
  would 
  have 
  enabled 
  him 
  to 
  bring 
  

   either 
  corn 
  or 
  cattle 
  with 
  him. 
  Whatever 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  these 
  things 
  he 
  had 
  before, 
  

   must 
  necessarily 
  have 
  been 
  lost. 
  . 
  The 
  present 
  

   condition, 
  therefore, 
  of 
  the 
  Australian 
  Savage 
  

   in 
  respect 
  to 
  these 
  important 
  elements 
  of 
  

   civilization, 
  affords 
  no 
  presumption 
  whatever 
  

   that 
  it 
  represents 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  those 
  from 
  

   whom 
  he 
  is 
  descended. 
  There 
  is 
  hardly 
  a 
  

   single 
  fact 
  quoted 
  by 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  in 
  

   favour 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  theory, 
  which, 
  when 
  

   viewed 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  same 
  in- 
  

   disputable 
  principles, 
  does 
  not 
  tell 
  against 
  

   that 
  theory 
  rather 
  than 
  in 
  its 
  favour. 
  

   The 
  facts 
  indeed 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  hitherto 
  

   quoted 
  prove 
  only 
  that 
  forgetfulness 
  of 
  arts 
  

  

  