﻿RELIGIOUS 
  KNOWLEDGE 
  MAY 
  BE 
  LOST. 
  185 
  

  

  was 
  probably 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  Primeval 
  Man, 
  

   because 
  he 
  " 
  feels 
  it 
  difficult 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  

   any 
  people 
  which 
  once 
  possessed 
  a 
  religion 
  

   would 
  ever 
  entirely 
  lose 
  it.'' 
  Surely, 
  if 
  there 
  

   is 
  one 
  fact 
  more 
  certain 
  than 
  another 
  in 
  

   respect 
  to 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  Man, 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  he 
  

   is 
  capable 
  of 
  losing 
  religious 
  knowledge, 
  of 
  

   ceasing 
  to 
  believe 
  in 
  religious 
  truth, 
  and 
  of 
  

   falling 
  away 
  from 
  religious 
  duty. 
  If 
  by 
  

   " 
  religion 
  " 
  is 
  meant 
  the 
  existence 
  merely 
  

   of 
  some 
  impressions 
  of 
  powers 
  invisible 
  and 
  

   "supernatural" 
  — 
  even 
  this, 
  we 
  know, 
  can 
  not 
  

   only 
  be 
  lost, 
  but 
  be 
  scornfully 
  disavowed 
  by 
  

   men 
  who 
  are 
  highly 
  civilized. 
  Nor 
  does 
  Sir 
  

   J. 
  Lubbock's 
  comment 
  upon 
  this 
  subject 
  gain 
  

   by 
  the 
  further 
  explanation 
  which 
  he 
  gives, 
  

   He 
  says 
  that 
  " 
  Religion 
  appeals 
  so 
  strongly 
  

  

  