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no doubt (be says) often occurs to those who attend our meet- 
ings, or read reports of the same, that they do little towards 
the establishment of a science of mankind.-’" He adds : “This 
feeling is no doubt greatly based on truth""; and this frank 
admission disarms criticism, and is well borne out by the 
specimens I have given of what is contained in last month"s 
number of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of 
London . 
Mr. Heath further says : — 
‘ ^he scientific evidence in favour of the traditionary view [i.e., the 
account in Genesis of man’s creation] being absolutely none at all of any 
kind whatever, I compare it therefore unfavourably with the other view now 
rising into public notice. This view is, that during and after the tertiary 
geological epoch, the highest mammals then on earth were becoming more 
erect in their way of walking, less hairy in their bodies, and more like in 
general to what the lowest men are now. Such beings are supposed during 
these changes to have also gradually rationalised some of their emotions, by 
the use of mental powers, [but] not so much beyond what the average of 
them possessed as to presuppose a miraculous development.” 
Then he says : — 
“ If we can by this time conceive to ourselves the clever chief of two or 
three hundred of such merely emotional inhabitants of a kitchen-midden, 
struggling into the semi-emotional, semi-rational state of expressing, ‘ I will 
kill,’ we shall now be able all the more readily to follow such a chief, and his 
tribe, in the circumstances under which I proceed to depict them.” 
Then he depicts some half-dozen well-armed and speakino* 
Aryans coming suddenly upon two hundred of these EuropeaS 
kitchen-midden ers,"" and imposing their language on the 
mutes, which they (he thinks) would at once adopt, only 
modified by GrimnTs law. He goes on : — 
“ Now follow the lead er of the six Aryans in his first lesson to the crowd 
01 200 mutes around him.” — “ Naturally he would get the crowd to 
pronounce after him some short syllables such as pa, ta, lea, to illustrate the 
use of lips, palate and throat, and very naturally the four or five men (or 
women more likely), just in front of him would pronounce them rightly, but 
not one man in fifty can tell the real effect of his work on a crowd. On 
returning to their wigwams much would be the emotion of risibility and 
imitativeness displayed that night among the natives ; ” &c. 
But I perceive that “the emotion of risibility” is here 
becoming so considerable, that I shall not attempt to quote 
consecutively what follows. The Aryan leader is supposed 
to tmd bis pupils extremely frolicsome and refractory, and 
ia ei enjoying their apt capacity for mispronouncing every 
