12. 1 have ahead, MtM “X a V 
rSi?ho,Wh 8 ,tel r l 
the recent supporters of the theory eminent 99 Which may 
bishop of Dublin was *™f . * Bn. proverb' 
be very true; but then, after all, accormng ^ ^ ft 
“ a living dog is better than a dead li . ^ Lubbock thus 
little absurd to witness the living y°™ g S fl l J ar t ed g rea t Church 
interrogating with an air of triumph the departed gre 
d, <‘ wTaf W of monument would the Archbishop accept as proving that 
Getting no answer, of course, he a little 
the late great logician s arg m ^ Australian boomerang, 
against his own view, and breath, we have 
which recoils upon its owner. ^ equally 
Whately’s logic quoted at boomerang, which 
unheard-of character given to the Australian uoo^ * t and 
even the Australian savages themselves 10 Id ly* ^ Qn 
repudiate. Even savages know better th lowest 
« which recoils upon its owner”! To gr re ' tne ’ ve y ( 
and darkest races their due, at least they tn t> 
13. Before quitting this incidental P^-^X-let me 
Archbishop cannot reply to his wing suctl a <•- mo nu- 
observe, that in the boomerang ancestors were superior 
ment” as proves that the Austoli Q^ t h e boomerang be 
to the present race, that is, it > PP ^ though they 
n.n Australian invention, tor t 1 use are inca- 
lmow how to form it by tra no^ kind Qr of understanding 
pable of inventing anything have even puzzled 
be principle of its act on, which appears to hai m 
Sir John Lubbock and explain, 
maticians or scientific mechan c Australia had former 
Either this, or the old aborigines °f Australia ^ 
communications with some lg e ’ bg rec0 gnized upon 
obtained the boomerang (which • te jj g utterly against 
Egyptian sculptures) ; and eith erhyp «** ^” e ut Sir John 
Sir John Lubbock’s theory o savage his own 
jar* » “ hk 
denunciation of Dr, Whately s logics 
