Walter Bagehot: “But one of the axioms of pre-historic investigation binds us to accept…”

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But one of the axioms of pre-historic investigation binds us to accept this as the morality of the pre-historic races if we receive that axiom.

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Walter Bagehot

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He asserts that accepting certain axioms about prehistoric investigation leads to conclusions about the morality of early human races.

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