Chap. VII. THE KACES OF MAN. 233 



mankind, yet the stone arrow-heads, brought from the 

 most distant parts of the world and manufactured at the 

 most remote periods, are, as Mlsson has shewn, 24 almost 

 identical ; and this fact can only be accounted for by 

 the various races having similar inventive or mental 

 powers. The same observation has been made by 

 archaeologists 25 with respect to certain widely-prevalent 

 ornaments, such as zigzags, &c; and with respect to 

 various simple beliefs and customs, such as the burying 

 of the dead under megalithic structures. I remember 

 observing in South America, 26 that there, as in so many 

 other parts of the world, man has generally chosen the 

 summits of lofty hills, on which to throw up piles of 

 stones, either for the sake of recording some remarkable 

 event, or for burying his dead. 



Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in 

 numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions 

 between two or more domestic races, or between nearly- 

 allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument 

 that all are descended from a common progenitor who 

 was thus endowed ; and consequently that all should be 

 classed under the same species. The same argument 

 may be applied with much force to the races of man. 



As it is improbable that the numerous and unim- 

 portant points of resemblance between the several races 

 of man in bodily structure and mental faculties (I do 

 not here refer to similar customs) should all have been 

 independently acquired, they must have been inherited 

 from progenitors who were thus characterised. We 

 thus gain some insight into the early state of man, 



34 ' The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia/ Eng. translaj^mAJQ A j 

 by Sir J. Lubbock, 1868, p. 104. /V ~* , 



25 Hodder M. Westropp, on Cromlechs, &c, ' JournajAf^Et]jliP- S **<v 

 logical Soc' as given in 'Scientific Opinion,' June 2nd, 18^9£p~. 2r ^^.z*** « 



26 ' Journal of Kesearches : Voyage of the " Beagle," ' n.39. n , 



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