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Title: Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation
A Study in Anthropology. A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of "A Lawgiver of the Stone Age."

Author: Horatio Hale

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HIAWATHA AND THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION.

A Study in Anthropology

by

HORATIO HALE.

A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of "A
Lawgiver of the Stone Age."

Salem, Mass.:
Printed at the Salem Press.
1881.

A LAWGIVER OF THE STONE AGE. By HORATIO HALE, of Clinton, Ontario,
Canada.

What was the intellectual capacity of man when he made his first
appearance upon the earth? Or, to speak with more scientific precision
(as the question relates to material evidences), what were the mental
powers of the people who fashioned the earliest stone implements, which
are admitted to be the oldest remaining traces of our kind? As these
people were low in the arts of life, were they also low in natural
capacity? This is certainly one of the most important questions which
the science of anthropology has yet to answer. Of late years the
prevalent disposition has apparently been to answer it in the
affirmative. Primitive man, we are to believe, had a feeble and narrow
intellect, which in the progress of civilization has been gradually
strengthened and enlarged. This conclusion is supposed to be in
accordance with the development theory; and the distin