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pile-dwelling, and from the rudest enclosure to the 

 complex fortification of the terramare, there is an 

 advance which is obviously a native product. So 

 with the sepulchral constructions; the stone cist, 

 with or without a preservative, or memorial cairn, 

 grows into the chambered graves lodged in tumuli; 

 into such mesalithic edifices as the dromic vaults 

 of Maes How and New Grange; to culminate in the 

 finished masonry of the tombs of Mycenae, con- 

 structed on exactly the same plan. Can any one 

 look at the varied series of forms which lie be- 

 tween the primitive five or six flat stones fitted 

 together into a mere box, and such a building as 

 Maes How, and yet imagine that the latter is the 

 result of foreign tuition? But the men who built 

 Maes How, without metal tools, could certainly 

 have built the so-called " treasure-house " of My- 

 cenae, with them. 



If these old men of the sea, the heights of 

 Hindoo-Koosh-Pamir and the plain of Shinar, had 

 been less firmly seated upon the shoulders of 

 anthropologists, I think they would long since 

 have seen that it is at least possible that the early 

 civilisation of Europe is of indigenous growth; 

 and that, so far as the evidence at present accu- 

 mulated goes, the neolithic culture may have at- 

 tained its full development, copper may have 

 gradually come into use, and bronze may have suc- 

 ceeded copper, without foreign intervention. 



So far as I am aware, every raw material em- 



