Note 1625 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Darwin took Lubbock’s side, Descent of Man, i. 174. Bradford, in his American Antiquities, held the barbarous American to be a degraded remnant of a society originally more cultivated; and a similar view was held by S. F. Jarvis in his Discourse before the New York Hist. Soc. (Proc., iii., N. Y., 1821). Cf. Büchner’s Man, Eng. transl., 67, 276. Rawlinson (Antiquity of man historically considered) considers savagery a “corruption and degradation,—the result of adverse circumstances during a long period.”