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time in estimating the age of the Omori deposits. It can be stated with 

 absolute certainty that they are pre-Japanese ; and there are as good 

 reasons for believing them pre-Aino as early Aino. 



I have to return my sincere thanks to the university authorities for 

 the zeal they have displayed in assisting me in the examination of the 

 deposits, and to the personal help afforded me in the excavations by 

 Profs. Yatabe, Toyama, and Dr. David Murray, Messrs. Matsumura, 

 Sasaki, Matsura, Fukuyo, and others. I made a special request that 

 the deposits should be completely examined during- my absence, and 

 this examination was most faithfully done. A much larger collection 

 was made with many new and curious forms of pots. I hope at some 

 futvire time to illustrate them. 



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YIKCHOW A]S^D EYOLUTION.^ 



By Professor JOHN TYNDALL. 



THIS world of ours has, on the whole, been an inclement region for 

 the growth of natural truth ; but it may be that the plant is all 

 the hardier for the bendings and buffetings it has undergone. The 

 torturing of a shrub, within certain limits, strengthens it. Through 

 the struggles and passions of the brute, man reaches his estate ; through 

 savagery and barbarism his civilization ; and through illusion and per- 

 secution his knowledge of Nature, including that of his own frame. 

 The bias toward natural truth must have been strong to have with- 

 stood and overcome the opposing forces. Feeling appeared in the 

 world before knowledge ; and thoughts, conceptions, and creeds, founded 

 on emotion, had, befoi'e the dawn of science, taken root in man. Such 

 thoughts, conceptions, and creeds, must have met a deep and general 

 want ; otherwise their growth could not have been so luxuriant, nor 

 their abiding power so strong. This general need — this hunger for the 

 ideal and wonderful — led eventually to the differentiation of a caste, 

 whose vocation it Avas to cultivate the mystery of life and its surround- 

 ings, and to give shape, name, and habitation to the emotions which 

 that mystery aroused. Even the savage lived, not by bread alone, but 

 in a mental world peopled with forms answering to his capacities and 

 needs. As time advanced — in other words, as the savage opened out 

 into civilized man — these forms were purified and ennobled, until they 

 finally emerged in the mythology and art of Greece : 



" "Where still the magic robe of Poesy 

 Wound itself lovingly around the Truth.'' ^ 



' Introductory chapter to a forthcoming volume of " Fragments of Science." 

 - " Da der Dichtung zauberische Hulle 



Sich noch lieblich um die Wahrheit wand." — Schiller. 



