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there, and first began to improve the condition of their people, 

 but we are not told whence those men came. No one, however, 

 can read about those countries, as well as Tartary, Japan, and 

 Polynesia, without being struck by the traces of Hebrew cere- 

 monies and rites, by the evidences of the worship of Baal, or by 

 remains of Arkite observances, scattered through the more 

 populous, if not through all the nations upon earth. 



That man could have been first created in an infant, or a 

 savage state, appears to my apprehension impossible ; (for a 

 moment taking a view of the case, unaided by Scripture ;) be- 

 cause — if an infant — who nursed, who fed, who protected him 

 till able to subsist alone ? and, if a savage, he would have been 

 utterly helpless. Destitute of the instinct possessed by brutes,— 

 with organs inexperienced (however perfect), and with a mind 

 absolutely vacant ; neither his eye, his ear, his hand, nor his 

 foot would have been available, and after a few hours of 

 apathetic existence he must have perished. The only idea I 

 can reconcile to reason is that man was created perfect in 

 body, perfect in mind, and knowing by inspiration enough 

 for the part he had to perform ; — such a being it would be 

 worse than folly to call savage. 



Have we a shadow of ground for thinking that wild animals 

 or plants have improved since their creation ? Can any rea- 

 sonable man believe that the first of a race, species, or kind, 

 was the most inferior? Then how for a moment could false 

 philosophers, and those who have been led away by their writ- 

 ings, imagine that there were separate beginnings of savage 

 races, at different times, and in different places ? Yet I may 

 answer this question myself ; for until I had thought much on 

 the subject, and had seen nearly every variety of the human 

 race, I had no reason to give in opposition to doubts excited 

 by such sceptical works, except a conviction that the Bible 

 was true, that in all ages men had erred, and that sooner 

 or later the truth of every statement contained in that record 

 would be proved. 



To return to the lines and means of communication : — 



Following the various routes of population into the Indian 



