For it proves that not only the somewhat-before-history men, but the absolutely first men, could not have had close family instincts, and yet if they were like most though not all of the animals nearest to man they had such instincts.
Bagehot suggests that both prehistoric and early humans lacked close family instincts, despite having some instinctual tendencies.
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