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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  intelligible 
  principle 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  idea 
  of 
  sacrifice, 
  

   namely, 
  the 
  principle 
  of 
  self-sacrifice. 
  

  

  Here 
  for 
  the 
  present 
  I 
  must 
  leave 
  the 
  

   subject. 
  My 
  chief 
  object 
  has 
  been 
  to 
  show 
  

   how 
  little 
  really 
  depends 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   arguments 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  put 
  forth 
  by 
  

   both 
  sides 
  in 
  this 
  controversy, 
  and 
  to 
  indicate 
  

   what 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  true 
  bearing 
  of 
  

   the 
  facts 
  which 
  as 
  yet 
  have 
  been 
  clearly 
  

   ascertained. 
  I 
  set 
  little 
  value 
  on 
  the 
  argu- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  Whately, 
  that 
  as 
  regards 
  the 
  

   mechanical 
  arts 
  Man 
  can 
  never 
  have 
  risen 
  

   "unaided." 
  The 
  aid 
  which 
  Man 
  had 
  from 
  

   his 
  Creator 
  may 
  possibly 
  have 
  been 
  nothing 
  

   more 
  than 
  jthe 
  aid 
  of 
  a 
  Body 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  Mind, 
  

   so 
  marvellously 
  endowed, 
  that 
  Thought 
  was 
  

   an 
  instinct,, 
  and 
  Contrivance 
  was 
  at 
  once 
  a 
  

  

  