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and perpetuated by, the direst superstition, IS officially re- 
cognized and duly approved, as an essential ingredient of tbe 
best quality, if not the highest form of True Anthropology, 
“fables false as Hell yet deemed oracular.”* Why is the 
Religion of the Heart ignored, as a duty to God, whether we 
speak of the Greek, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, or Mohammedan 
Faith ? 
14. Is such the rational Logic of Intellectual Philosophy ? At 
all events, I am of opinion, as I have ever been, that the Science 
of Man, in the broad and catholic sense of that comprehensive 
and generic term, must include every department of Human 
Nature, whether regarded as pure or impure, mental or physi- 
cal, moral or spiritual, or, whatever the “ science ” may consist 
of, there will not be much true knowledge of Man. The super- 
stitious part of recent Anthropology was assuredly known to 
Ezekiel; and was he not the son ofBuzi,and descendant of Aaron, 
when, carried away captive to Babylon 2,467 years before they 
were so gratefully appreciated, either by the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science or the German Congress of 
Physicians and Natural Philosophers ? Yes, and were wither- 
ingly denounced by him as a morbid perversion of that which 
is holy and good, sublime, beautiful, and true in the nature 
and constitution of the human soul ; he “ caused Jerusalem to 
know her abominations,” and that, too, in language of such 
bold, vehement, and tragic dignity, in a gorgeous and majestic 
style of rich oriental splendour, as will never be equalled by 
all the Anthropologists of Christendom, Jew or Gentile, to 
the end of time. Such is the protoplasm of Spirit ! This is 
the true life in Man ; it cannot be seen, but it can be felt. 
Life springs from Life in the spiritual as much as in the mental 
and physical world, and no scientific or philosophical experi- 
ments have yet proved that germinal Matter, which has never 
lived, has still been seen passing into vitality. The Human 
Soul is real, though alike invisible and intangible. The 
Crania of the ancient Races of Men were the same as those of 
a.d. 1870. The objects we have to deal with when we are 
reflecting on or studying the science of Mind, and, therefore, 
the science of Man, are in absolute contrast with those we are 
investigating when we are scientifically observing visible and 
tangible things, or experimenting amid Brains and Bones. 
Ihe former are, from their very spiritual nature and divine 
• ®*ktiiig savages, in my opinion, are the degenerate offshoots of more 
civilized races, at least we have no adequate proofs that different communities 
have raised themselves, unaided, from the lowest to the highest forms of 
civilization. The Bushmen of Papua do not evolve Humboldts, Shaksperes, 
or St. Augustmes. 
