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might well be proud, I could not help seeing that the introduction of another 

 race had considerably altered, even in the very first generation, the appearance 

 of the skull and all the other characteristics which are considered as having 

 been for ages constant and unvarying. (Hear, hear.) There is another fact which 

 I wish to point out, and that is that the Anglo-Saxon race generally runs 

 itself pure ; that is to say, that as the Anglo-Saxon race becomes associated 

 with the various races of the earth, the progressive development theory is sure 

 to end in very greatly improving the races with whom the Anglo-Saxon 

 element comes in contact. I wish you to remember, therefore, that the 

 absence of the means of locomotion, and the lack of intermarriages, have a 

 great deal to do with accounting for the marked and constant appearances 

 preserved throughout successive generations of the same types. Another 

 point to which attention lias been called is that of the argument derived 

 from botany. What I meant by referring to the orders of grasses was this : 

 T cannot help thinking that if you were to take up a single piece of meadow 

 grass, and show the stalk of it to some ignorant and well-meaning peasant, 

 telling him that it was of exactly the same family as the sugar-cane, he would 

 look at it with very wondering eyes, and you could scarcely expect that he 

 would give credence to the statement. I intended by the analogy I thus 

 employed, to say that there does not appear to be a greater difference among 

 the varieties of the human race, than what we see among the different varieties 

 of the same order of grasses, and my object was merely to show the unity of 

 plan which is everywhere apparent in almost endless varieties of forms. 

 With regard to what has been suggested as to Scriptural testimony, possibly 

 I may be open to correction there ; but I was under the impression, from 

 what I had read in the Times with regard to the recent discovery, that 

 there was an undesigned coincidence in the new testimony in support of the 

 statement that there had at one time been a great cataclysm or deluge, and 

 that whatever there might be in the various traditional descriptions of this 

 great event, which tended to support the Biblical narrative, all helped towards 

 establishing its truth. (Hear, hear.) We know how frequently it happens 

 that things, which in themselves are mere nothings, when taken in the 

 aggregate, become very important, and in the same way I say that things 

 which are found outside Scripture, although only regarded as mere myths, 

 are often truths which have been perverted, as we know must be the case 

 where they can only be preserved by oral tradition. 



Mr, Row. — Pardon me ; I think you have misunderstood. I did not 

 say that the myths themselves might not be evidence, but that in the 

 particular case of the stone which has been recently deciphered, the story was 

 by the inscription itself shown to have been classed among a set of myths. 



Mr. Weldon.— I am a grea-t believer in the mythological histories of the 

 old Greeks and Romans, as proving how a great variety of truths may in the 

 progress of time have lost the original impress of truth, as is always the 

 tendency of history handed' down by means of oral tradition only. With 

 regard to the brevity of my paper, noticed also by Mr. Row, I must confess 



