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(8.) Then as to the bark-cloth of the Polynesians I tod no 
argument to answer. It is not even asserted to be a 
invention of the modern Polynesians. May it not be a traditio 
art-relic of their forefathers, and tell the other way . „ 
(9) And, once more, as to the boomerang. We cannot 
(says Sir John) “look on it as a relic of pnmevM civdization, 
or it would not now be confined to one race only. This argu 
ment betrays the source of all Sir John Lubbock’s false re^sonin^ 
throughout By “civilization” he only conceives nmteriat 
civilization ” he evidently imagines that those who be^ 
^vAQfprl m an elevated condition, np 
right” and very good, also think he was created with a know- 
ledge of all the arts and sciences ! _ In fact he has no on y ^ 
crushing a deceased logician of eminei uce, 
man of straw ' It is almost the story of Don Quixote s wind 
mfils and whm-bags over again ! The least amount of ca mness 
and common sense dispels the illusions. As already axgaed ( (13), 
the present Australian savages are incapable of l Y®lnted by 
boomerang. According to Sir John it Vi 
previous Australian aborigines. Surely the in evitab le erp° 
is, that the ancestors of the present aborigines were supe 
to them And if so, the Australian savages, as we now k 
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among the more civilized races, is the existence of *“ «««« 3 £ 
stone acre even in Palestine and in Syria, Egypt and India. M , 
from the ore is not an obvious art or easy process, whereas stones 
are everywhere ready and at hand, and are easily c0 ” ver 1 te ^”*l re 
strumentsby chipping and rubbing. It i = t -tura^e efor^ 
the b?r bow t t 
S crCbow the musket and rifle. But men might be quite a 
elevated morally and mentally while * using ^ meant 
arts and sciences, it would be down- 
mSL to aply the word to the primitive 
But that is not its meaning. It primarily and ffi ^nners " 
an enlightened mental condition and pure morals or good man 
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marriage among savages. 
I do not follow his arguments, however, 
