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that a selection of the fittest has been made in the rougher 

 regions of the north, and this supposition seems to be 

 borne out by the fact that so far decidedly all the higher 

 types of primitive man have been discovered in central 

 Europe, while of the very lowest there are not a few (viz. , 

 the Neanderthal man and those represented by the relics 

 of Spy and Krapina) that find a most primitive counter- 

 part only in the relics of the ape-man of Java discovered 

 by Professor Du Bois, called pithecus antJiropus erectus 

 Du Bois. 



Progress in our days is not made because man likes 



WOMAN'S SKULL FOUND AT CRO-MAGNON. 

 From the same source as the preceding illustration. 



to advance and learn new lessons, but mainly because he 

 must progress and discover. Man must make new inven- 

 tions because competition and the struggle for life force 

 him to do better than others and rise higher. It is as if 

 nature were whipping man onward and forward, and there 

 are only a few individuals that have acquired a natural 

 impulse to work, to advance, and to inquire. There are 

 very few indeed that labor for the sake of progress and for 

 the love of it. 



We may assume with great probability that the 

 most important step taken by life in its higher advance, 



