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wholesale waste of individuajs 5? whaj^^jnay. be 

 called the struggle f°; ^Jf J^ff^i ereatures are 

 By these means all ™"'^'°| ''^ ^ „„ doubt, 

 r'Th^iBfrrof'hewodd'withtheintentioa 



to the family tie , '■'""y "f". ^^3 „ the hands 

 ttte DtMrthrmost''tS m^ cf the day 

 of the Uriio^. i^"" forests for they deemed it 

 "" ■ Cttthefr God to enclose their emblems in 

 :° erficVsur^unded by walls and erected by 

 mortal hands. ,pemed not to occur to the 



■^IZ C^^.cherVwb"ther the ancient Britons 

 minds ot our h"^™" '. -^ ^ ^j these islands, and, 

 were the original '°\«^';^°*"X lived here before 



11"°*' "'ifthe e7rir oa-s hadleft any remains 

 t^mwtcUJm tiding couia be .now^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



•=;"""' nChtdWnd the", ''cL of informa- 

 smce ™''°P.?,v written documents, coins, and so 

 "°%taf the pU throughout of' man's early 

 on, tnai me v „,j„ tnnls weapons, incised 

 history i^^'l^^Vnstwch are found in the rudest 



■ f fC Rionze Age, and on to the Iron Age 

 ,nto the i>'°^^%'^^l^' .„.„ to "au.'e the rank of 

 This ftudy of man tend, to „^^^^^^ ^^.^^ 



their culture and to trace tneip ^ ^^ 



gradually t-^ Pj^^^.^^^^u d 1: e to know how they 

 even more '°t^'«f;"';'„7^hat were their ideas o^ 

 treated one another, anc wnav existence. We 



'^' "ZaT:*rfatTn^ght intoTh^doings of pre- 

 pay obtain a tair in „ ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



^rr'?nwer races of m°ankina of to-day, or even 

 of the lower races 01 culture among our 



into the dif^rent ^tages ot c^ isolated, changes 



own race. When a P«"l' „ ^ a very back- 



take place very slowly, and we tad a y^ ^^^ 



ward pe.,ple, S^ whether by commerce, migra- 

 minghng of people whether y ^ ^.^essary 



rairo;-f^rrngeTnT|ro^re.^ By tlie study 



"L^'idrrtolhfphaseTrugh whiL^ur 



l^^tiSsipi^^of^Si^^s 



""^^' P;%lZ the earth 'at the same time, there 

 up a root from tbe eartn , ^j ^^^^^ 



is little doubt as to their bemt ^^ 



hands.for when placed with the r ^^^^ ^^^ 



stone ™P'«°«°'\her savacxes, it is difficult to 

 Australian and other =^™?, ' ^^4 chim- 



detect any d'fference. I the oran ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ 



panzce "^«,=^'»r;J°Ld bLt"stones would crack 



X: rnltCll as nu^ -^-^^^t^ 



rprS::;rth:r"g':a% father and 



find that a sharp one would cut. To aU apPe-ances 

 man went through such a stage : b*^ le^'^°«^ ^ 

 "hip stones for himself, very rude at first, but h» 

 who made weapons most effective had the best 

 Thane" of survival in competition with wild 

 cnancB ul , ,, . he chipped his flints 



mZ cautrously and thoughtfully. K^ found better 

 Ia could be done by pressure than by Wow^^^to 

 DOlishing would be but a small step; sparks would 

 Ce befn produced by chipping, heat would be 

 producel by polishing and thus the two methods 



^^^^r^^i^SrrSl^teau-™ 

 a great quantity of the rudest forms of A'^t^" 



^/^i^ftr^b^^^-^^f 1j£ 



ZLl museum, to come across -b -^ -mb" 

 from our district^ ReliBomP^^ ^^^^^^ 



rdTe^t'ev^\% Luting, such fl^^^^^^^^^^ 



:lh Wted n the British Museum to show he 

 manne. in which f^kes were^truck off in the 



r?hX":f tU-c^i^rn:!^- n.^:^pii^ yi.'i.ed 



Tgreat nSmber of implements, and seems to me 



;bv:^^:,i^or^aSS£ 



r^.a-Sfl^rinL^ceXd:g 

 thick, which alone must have taken ages to ., 



culture than the drift ""f^^J^'^^s'the mammoth, 

 doubt, hunted such Urge bea^'^ »= 'ne 



They found l"fP«^^;3^'^^Pped with ^sharply 



;-t:^srne.lt£t4}{5e- 



Lms of chipped ^tone and stU he^has^ ^^^ 

 Sel M"i^dra"n^d\h^e sSke dwellings. A 



