Abstract
THIS interesting volume, as may be inferred from the title, embraces two cognate but at the same time somewhat diverse subjects—the one the survival, or possibly the reintroduction, of objects and customs, which are usually regarded as primitive, among the civilised nations of the present day; the other the nature and origin of civilisation.
The Past in the Present. What is Civilisation?
By Arthur Mitchell 8vo. pp. xvi. and 354. (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880.)
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The Past in the Present. What is Civilisation? . Nature 23, 166–167 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023166a0
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