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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 haying 
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, tbe 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 has been called is that of the argument derived 
from botany. What I meant by referring to the orders 'of grasses was this : 
I 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. Bow. — 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 great believer in the mythological histories of the 
old Greeks and Bomans, 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. Bow, I must confess 
