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I might take you among many tribes in America, of whom 
Squier, in his Archeological Researches , says : — 
The attributes given to the Supreme Spirit in whom they believe are not 
less lofty than those assigned to the Indian Brahm. They seldom mention 
His name, and then with the greatest reverence. 
25. But why should I enter further upon these topics? Enough 
has surely been said to prove both the truth of Prehistoric 
Monotheism and its inevitable tendency to overthrow the 
modern ethnological dogma of the aboriginal savagery of man. 
If this conclusion falls in with the teaching of Scripture, it is 
satisfactory to know that we have used no Scriptural evidence 
in order to establish it. We have merely dealt with facts—facts 
which ought to be well considered by a class of students who 
are disposed, on other considerations, to overlook them. That 
the evidence which has been here adduced, although brief and 
compressed in its character, may induce our opponents to 
reflect upon their position, and at least pay greater respect to 
those who differ from them, has been one great object of the 
author in writing this paper for the Victoria Institute. 
The Chairman. — I am sure we have listened with very great interest to 
the able exposition of this’ subject which has just been addressed to us. I 
think we must all feel great satisfaction that the points which have been 
elsewhere raised, and which are so entirely subversive of all our ideas of 
the progress of religious belief, have been thus controverted and refuted, 
and I feel assured that you will join with me in a cordial vote of thanks to 
Mr. Titcomb. I will repeat what I have already stated, that as this paper 
directly controverts the opinions of Sir John Lubbock, who was invited 
to be present here to-night, in order that he might speak for himself. W e 
shall now be happy to hear any observations that either members of the 
Institute or visitors may wish to make. 
Br. E. Haughton. — The point which it has occurred to me to bring forward 
is in reference to the statement made by those who hold Sir John Lubbock’s 
views, that the Dyaks, Zulus, various African tribes, and the natives of 
Patagonia, have no religious belief at all, with which I cannot agree, for 
it always seems to me that those persons who assert that particular tribes 
have no religious belief, put themselves into a particularly difficult position, 
because they undertake to prove a negative, — asserting, because they have 
not found a particular thing, that therefore that particular thing does not 
exist. It is just as though some one were to say : “ I undertake to prove 
that such and such a murder has not taken place, because I did not see it 
happen, nor do I know any one who did.” But the instances which are 
adduced in the paper before us go to show the proper way of dealing with 
these objections, because it appears that both these tribes — both Dyaks and 
