﻿TWO 
  FUNDAMENTAL 
  OBJECTIONS. 
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  fact 
  proves 
  that 
  rude 
  stone 
  implements 
  are 
  

   not 
  necessarily 
  any 
  indication 
  whatever 
  of 
  

   a 
  really 
  barbarous 
  condition. 
  Assuming 
  then 
  

   that 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  stone 
  has 
  in 
  all 
  cases 
  pre- 
  

   ceded 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  metals, 
  it 
  is 
  quite 
  certain 
  

   that 
  the 
  same 
  Age 
  which 
  was 
  an 
  Age 
  

   of 
  Stone 
  in 
  one 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  was 
  an 
  

   Age 
  of 
  Metal 
  in 
  another. 
  As 
  regards 
  the 
  

   Eskimo 
  and 
  the 
  South-Sea 
  Islanders 
  we 
  

   are 
  now, 
  or 
  were 
  very 
  recently, 
  living 
  in 
  a 
  

   Stone 
  Age. 
  And 
  so 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  all 
  past 
  

   times 
  of 
  which 
  any 
  record 
  remains. 
  The 
  

   whole 
  argument 
  therefore 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  

   founded 
  on 
  flint 
  implements, 
  is 
  an 
  argument 
  

   liable 
  to 
  these 
  two 
  fundamental 
  objections, 
  

   first 
  that 
  flint 
  implements 
  are 
  a 
  very 
  un- 
  

   certain 
  index 
  of 
  civilization, 
  even 
  among 
  the 
  

  

  