Capitolo 61
it founded to form one whole, and it trains us to form a vivid truth
the conception of manners and times now very distant remote.
He doesn't affirm that we have surmounted every difficulty--on
the contrary one there is a lot still for being deciphered; but, in some
respects, we know better now these shady tribes
of first times that with those whose history has been recorded
from the easy pen of the historian. He has given us a record of
blood. He informs us with March of enormous armies, it tells us
of ransacked city, and it gives us the names of a long roll of
entitled king; but, we a little unfortunately know, of the house
the life, the occupation or of those small things that do on
the culture of a people. But the knowledge of primitive tribe,
gathered by the scarce rests of their utensils by a,
the complete exploration of their houses of cavern, has done us
informed with many of their life of house and outskirtses:
and we am not completely ignorant as to such themes as them
work, government and religion. We don't have to forget that this is
a knowledge of tribe and peoples that you/they lived here in durations
incommensurably ancient as comparative with that in existence to the
a lot of dawn of history.
We have to try and we have to form a mental portrait of that that was probably the
is primitive of man; and a few judicious reasoning from
done known they will do a lot for us in this direction. Some writers
you/he/she has contended that the first condition of man was that of
pleasant innocence, combined with a tall degree of
intellectual improvement that, owing to the wickedness of humanity him,
gradually lost. This ideal portrait, however consistent with ours
wishes, have not only to give way in front of the mass of information
now to our command, but it doesn't really have foundation in reason;
"in every case, or if this primitive condition of the innocence and
intellectual improvement ever existed, it is due to disappear to one period
preceding the archaeological and present investigations."<29>