in ANCIENT DANISH SKULLS. 209 



In conclusion, I may say, that the fossil remains 

 of Man hitherto discovered do not seem to me to 

 take us appreciably nearer to that lower pithecoid 

 form, by the modification of which he has, probably, 

 become what he is. And considering what is now 

 known of the most ancient Eaces of men; seeing 

 that they fashioned flint axes and flint knives and 

 bone-skewers, of much the same pattern as those 

 fabricated by the lowest savages at the present day, 

 and that we have every reason to believe the habits 

 and modes of living of such people to have re- 

 mained the same from the time of the Mammoth 

 and the tichorhine Ehinoceros till now, I do not 

 know that this result is other than might be ex- 

 pected. 



Where, then, must we look for primaeval Man? 

 "Was the oldest Homo sapiens pliocene or miocene, 

 or yet more ancient? In still older strata do the 

 fossilized bones of an ape more anthropoid, or a 

 Man more pithecoid, than any yet known await the 

 researches of some unborn paleontologist? 



Time will show. But, in the meanwhile, if any 

 form of the doctrine of progressive development is 

 correct, we must extend by long epochs the most 

 liberal estimate that has yet been made of the an- 

 tiquity of Man. 



which it belongs." See also the essay on the Aryan ques- 

 tion in this volume. 1894.] 



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