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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



striking paragraph from William James 

 is literally true: 



"Bone of our bone, and flesh of our 

 flesh, are these half-brutish prehistoric 

 brothers. Girdled about with the im- 

 mense darkness of this mysterious uni- 

 verse even as we are, they were born and 

 died, suffered and struggled. Given 

 over to fearful crime and passion, 

 plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed 

 upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, 

 yet steadfastly serving the profoundest 

 of ideals in their fixed faith that existence 

 in any form is better than non-existence, 

 they ever rescued triumphantly^ from the 

 jaws of ever-imminent destruction the 

 torch of life which, thanks to them, now 





RECENl 



UPPER 

 PALA.OLITHIC 



— -Exiiniclion 



of Nea/fMerihals 



LOWER 

 PAL/ZOLITHIC 



EOLITHIC 

 7 



IrJ;' fhxi'iAcl Sifcci 



Cdnifnon Ancestofrs 

 Extinct and bxisting Species 



t>j Mai 



Iteproduced through the courtesy of 

 Charles Scribner's Sons 



To show the assumwl zoological relations of the known types of early man 

 (Fig. 262, p. 491, Men of the Old Stone Age] 



lights the world for us. How small, 

 indeed, seem individual distinctions 

 when we look back on these overwhelm- 

 ing numbers of human beings panting 

 and straining under the pressure of that 

 vital want! And how inessential in the 

 eyes of God must be the small surplus of 

 the individual's merit, swamped as it is 

 in the vast ocean of the common merit 

 of mankind, dumbly and undauntedly 

 doing the fundamental duty, and living 

 the heroic life! We grow humble and 

 reverent as we contemplate the prodi- 

 gious spectacle." 



As to what manner of men these were, 

 we are no longer entireh^ in the dark and 

 Professor Osborn's book sums up the 

 case for us in a plain 

 untechnical way. A 

 serviceable diagram 

 shows at a glance (Fig. 

 262, page 491) the as- 

 sumed zoological rela- 

 tions of the known 

 types of early man. 

 Here the reader may 

 see clearly the group- 

 ing into extinct forms 

 and into those not 

 widely divergent from 

 the man of today. Of 

 the former, four types 

 are recognized, Trinil, 

 Heidelberg, Neander- 

 thal and Piltdown. In 

 each case the type 

 specimens are charac- 

 terized and well illus- 

 trated. An unusual 

 feature of the book 

 is the finely modeled 

 restoration of each 

 type by Dr. J. H. 

 McGregor of Columbia 

 University, By care- 

 fully overlaying these 

 ancient skulls with clay 



• Races b(ilon<fi>io 



lExtstifi^ Spiecies of Mc^n 

 Homo isai 



}iens 



