If any reasoning is safe as to pre-historic man, the reasoning which imputes to him a deficient sense of morals is safe, for all the arguments suggested by all our late researches converge upon it, and concur in teaching it.
Bagehot argues that evidence suggests prehistoric humans had a limited sense of morality.
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