By the “primal people” Dante does not mean our first parents, but “the early races which inhabited Europe and Asia,” says Mr. Barlow, Study of Dante , and quotes in confirmation of his view the following passage from Humboldt’s Cosmos , II :—
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By the “primal people” Dante does not mean our first parents, but “the early races which inhabited Europe and Asia,” says Mr. Barlow, Study of Dante , and quotes in confirmation of his view the following passage from Humboldt’s Cosmos , II :—