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and mode of life which still survived among the Natchez and 

 other southeastern tribes when the country was first explored. 



We have still to search for the first place of origin of the human 

 form. There would seem to be no sufficient ground for the conclu- 

 sion that the human type first appeared exclusively in southeast- 

 ern Asia, or within the Oriental province ; for at the same time 

 when the oldMalayan peninsula stretched southward to Australia, 

 the more southerly extension of the continental shores must have 

 continued around to South Africa ; and it is just as possible that 

 synthetic anthropoid forms were evolved into t3'pes that might be 

 called human in one part as in another of that whole area, and 

 even as far north as France where the Miocene Dryopithecus 

 could live. As yet there are no proofs by fossil remains within 

 that area (in Europe or elsewhere) of the actual existence of forms 

 intermediate between the anthropoid apes and the lowest known 

 human form ; unless that lower type of human skull of the Neo- 

 lithic epoch, of which the Neanderthal skull is cited as an exam- 

 ple, can be called intermediate. Even if such intermediate forms 

 should be discovered in Europe, it would not necessarily follow 

 that the Palceolithic men of the flint implements, whether they 

 were of the white or the colored race, were the direct lineal de- 

 scendants in that area of any such inferior primitive types ; for 

 such more primitive forms may very well have become extinct in 

 that area long before the advent into Europe of those Palaeolithic 

 men ; and the argument would still remain in full force that the 

 white race received its complete distinction in high Central Asia 

 latest in the order of evolution of new forms and colors from 

 darker to lighter, and in an order of distribution from south to 

 north. Such primitive extinction of intermediate forms in the 

 more northern areas would be quite analogous to the extinction 

 of the anthropoid apes in those same areas, as the survival of the 

 Negro type in the more southern provinces is analogous to the 

 survival of the anthropoid apes in Africa and in Sumatra. No 

 remains of such intermediate types having been found in Europe 

 or in India, it has been inferred that they are to be looked for in 

 more southern tropical regions, or in some submerged " Lemu- 

 ria." As these earliest progenitors had not as yet manufactured 

 stone, flint, or other imperishable implements, and as their bones 

 would in all probability have entirely disappeared, unless fortu- 



