THE TRIUMPH OF THE BEST. 



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possibility of making each step is, upon the whole, defi- 

 nitely determined by the laws of existence. 



Nature leads man onward, as it were, step by step, 

 as if she pursued a special and well-calculated method of 

 education. The mechanical contrivances to be invented 



BONE CARVING FROM A DILUVIAL STATION IN SOUTHERN FRANCE. 



After Piette (Weltall und Menschheit, II, 280.) 



SEWING NEEDLES OF BONE SPLINTERS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 

 (Weltall und Menschheit, II, 274.) 



are suggested by our surroundings, and man finds them 

 as soon as he reaches a stage of maturity that enables him 

 to detect them. 



The earliest inventions are the best evidences of the 

 fact that nature herself made the first inventions possible 



