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brains. The ferocious savage of fiction could 

 not have tamed the horse. 



It is quite hkely that men killed and ate 

 ponies for ages before it occurred to our 

 ancestors that the creatures would be a deal 

 more useful alive. But how was Four-feet 

 overtaken and killed by Two-feet ? Science 

 has nothing to say on that point. We are not 

 told. 



Science has discovered that in Western 

 Europe there were various phases of culture 

 which are called (i), the EoHthic, when men 

 used natural stones for weapons, (2) the old 

 Stone Age, when flints were flaked to make 

 spear and arrow points, (3) and the new Stone 

 Age, when stones for weapon heads were 

 ground and polished, (4) the Bronze Age, (5) and 

 the Iron Age. It is true that flaking flints for 

 flint-lock guns continues in England in face of all 

 theories of the NeoHthic, because a flaked flint 

 will make sparks, whereas a ground flint won't. 

 It is also true that Europe is the only part of 

 the world with flints for flaking. The general 

 application of the theory is also a little difficult 

 on the Western American range, where there 

 are fine silicate stones ; but, in defiance of the 

 Neolithic culture, the savages persist in flaking 

 them for spear and arrow points while they 



