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Mr. Bow. — I did not mean you ; I referred to Sir John Lubbock. 
Mr. Titcomb. — Yery well, but I will just read again a short passage from 
the 10th paragraph of my paper : — 
“ The entire discussion consists in our fairly grappling with those loose and 
disjointed evidences which crop up here and there, either among those 
savage nations which have no history at all, or else among those anciently 
civilized nations which flourished before authentic history begins.” 
My idea is, that as these men try to show the prehistoric times of savages, 
so we must try to show the prehistoric times of monotheism. My title, 
therefore, is the counterpart of theirs ; my object being to show that among 
those nations where history is wanting, there are glimpses in our range of 
view which throw us back into the past gulf, and give us ground for 
supposing that monotheism then prevailed. We believe, for instance, that 
Egypt flourished before authentic history began ; indeed Manetho gives us a 
history of events before the 18th dynasty, at a time coeval with Moses. But 
there is nothing authentic, or very little that is authentic, before the time of 
Bameses the Great. The monuments of Egypt, however, go back much farther, 
and we get mueh that is prehistoric from the drawings or sculptures upon 
them. These representations are not historic in the proper sense of the 
word ; they give us glimpses of the prehistoric. Anything that alludes to 
something past — anything, in fact, which gives the first point of contact 
with history, and which contains a shadow of reflection on previous history, 
would be prehistoric in my view ; and it is from such glimpses of the past 
that I have endeavoured to make out my case. I only hope that this line 
of thought will fructify, and that we shall be more and more confirmed in 
the truth ourselves, and better able to confirm it in the minds of those who 
are waverers and doubters. (Cheers.) 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
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