. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, Clay, Professor of Oriental literature, Yale University, is of the same opinion when he writes: Above all else, one of the greatest surprises is that the earliest peoples, instead of l)eing barbarous or uncultured, were civilized and possessed a culture of a high * Oriental Travels, London, 1869. t Poshing Back Historys tlorizoi), Philailelpliia, 1916. AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. 65 Portions of the Bible excepted, history shows us civilization and barbarismexisting side by side from immemorial time as they exist side by side to-day,and this, in the
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, Clay, Professor of Oriental literature, Yale University, is of the same opinion when he writes: Above all else, one of the greatest surprises is that the earliest peoples, instead of l)eing barbarous or uncultured, were civilized and possessed a culture of a high * Oriental Travels, London, 1869. t Poshing Back Historys tlorizoi), Philailelpliia, 1916. AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. 65 Portions of the Bible excepted, history shows us civilization and barbarismexisting side by side from immemorial time as they exist side by side to-day,and this, in the words of Sophocles, is not a matter of to-day or yesterday, buthath been from all time, and none can tell us when or how it came. When a writer has lost faith in the supernatural and surrenders himself tosceptical theories there is no limit to Avhich he will not go to support his ownviews. Ko man may be called a scientist because he accepts as a certainty thatwhich is but a theory—such, for example, as the evolution of man from a worm. Primitive Man, the A cuuccptiuu ofJ. H. McGregor of the Ape-man of Java. or the ascent of civilized man from a savage. For science, if it means anything,implies demonstration leading to stern truth. Huxley in his Collected Essaysleft us an advice that may help to perpetuate his memory. He says: Giveunqualified assent to no proposition the truth of which is not so clear and distinctthat it cannot be doubted. Xow the evolution of man from what Herbert Spencer terms a highlydifferentiated ])()rtion of the earths crust and gaseous envelope, or what Nicholas Gill, Dean of American Biolooists, calls a worm-like thino5 A. 66 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. belonging to the earliest period of our earths history; or his ascent from aprehistoric savage, is far from being a demonstrated fact. Xor will we admit, inthe face of the philosophy of common sense, that these theories are. as Clod claims. self evident. SAVA
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