ument offered by him to 'a great historian,' apparently.

Mr. Max Muller's Method of Controversy

Now no member of the reading public, perusing Mr. Max Muller on
anthropological evidence (i. 24-26, 205-207), could guess that his
cautions about evidence are not absolutely new to us. He could not guess
that Dr. Tylor replied to them 'before they were made' by our present
critic (I think), and that I did the same with great elaboration. Our
defence of our evidence is not noticed by Mr. Max Muller. He merely
repeats what he has often said before on the subject, exactly as if
anthropologists were ignorant of it, and had not carefully studied,
assimilated, profited by it, and answered it. Our critic and monitor
might have said, 'I have examined your test of _recurrences_, and what
else you have to urge, and, for such and such reasons, I must reject it.'
Then we could reconsider our position in this new light. But Mr. Max
Muller does not oblige us in this way.

Mr. Max Muller on our Evidence

In an earlier work, The Gifford Lectures for 1891, {96} our author had
devoted more space to a criticism of our evidence. To this, then, we
turn (pp. 169-180, 413-436). Passing Mr. Max Muller's own difficulties
in understanding a Mohawk (which the Mohawk no doubt also felt in
understanding Mr. Max Muller), we reach (p. 172) the fables about godless
savages. These, it is admitted, are exploded among scholars in
anthropology. So we do, at least, examine evidence. Mr. Max Muller now
fixes on a flagrant case, some fables about the godless Mincopies of the
Andaman Islands. But _he_ relies on the evidence of Mr. Man. So do I,
as far as it seems beyond doubt. {97a} Mr. Man is 'a careful observer, a
student of language, and perfectly trustworthy.' These are the reasons
for which I trust him. But when Mr. Man says that the Mincopies have a
god, Puluga, who inhabits 'a stone house in the sky,' I remark, 'Here the
idea of the stone house is necessarily borrowed from our stone houses at
Port Blair.' {97b} When Mr. Man talks of Puluga's only-begotten son, 'a
sort of archangel,' medium between Puluga and the angels, I 'hesitate a
doubt.' Did not this idea reach the Mincopie mind from the same quarter
as the stone house, especially as Puluga's wife is 'a green shrimp or an
eel'? At all events, it is right to bear in mind that, as the stone
house of the Mincopie heaven is almost undeniably of European origin, the
only-beg