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i5kins were found with their remains. Having descrilied the 

 various forms of weapons, and their development, the lecturer 

 remarked that stone weapons would he shown to have survived 

 after the use of metal was known. We had stone hammers and 

 hatchets prepared -with metal tools. This was an instance of the 

 common survival of custom. Men did not work metal at first, 

 because fire was difficult to procure. It was only late in the history 

 of man that fire Avas largely used. The story of Prometheus 

 had its counterparts, showing that man at one time looked on 

 fire as a supernatural gift. With fire came cooking by means of 

 heated stones, baskets being covered with clay to hold water ; the 

 accidental baking of these vessels gave rise to pottery, which 

 often preserved as an ornament the impression of the basket-work 

 in which it was first made. The lecturer then proceeded to point 

 out how man went from ornamentation to represent thought by 

 written figures. The sculptures on the stones in Brittany were 

 exhibited on diagrams, and though nothing like numerals was in the 

 present state of knowledge represented, yet it was clear from the 

 way in which celts, axes, &c., were arranged, that there was a 

 desire to represent number. This was compared with the Indian 

 census, in which each tribe, represented by the totem of its chief, 

 had the numbers placed beneath that totem. An Indian love song, 

 and a curious picture of a petition of five chiefs to the President of 

 the United States with reference to the possession of certain lakes, 

 showed the link between ^ratten and spoken ideas. Finally the 

 lecturer described man's dwellings, and the imitation of natural 

 caves, in Avigwams, and tents, and of the mountains in which those 

 caves were found, in tumidi and pyramids. The home of man was 

 also his grave. In such buildings as Stonehenge, and in the more 

 extensive remains found at Carnac, and throughout the peninsula of 

 Morbihan, the lecturer fancied he traced the prophecy of Egyptian 

 architecture — long lines of stones leading up to a central monument. 

 Connecting this with the undoubted use of tumuli and cromlechs 

 for burial, the lecturer saw in these the expression of man's 

 desire for immortality. As with the dead man were buried his 

 ornaments, and sometimes liis wife (Suttee), as with the woman 

 was sometimes (nowadays) buried her child, so in the externals, 

 men sought to represent their belief that the fame of the warrior 

 woiUd be as great as the large monuments of Brittany, and they 



