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powers) who paid us could only appreciate area. My own chiefs 

 were very lenient with me ; they sympathised, but not to 

 the extent of letting me spend a few pounds in clearing sections. 

 It was the same ^\ith the \4siting public ; a party of about 

 fifty from Norwich argued a whole afternoon about the 

 interpretation of my Brandon Bed tool factory, but were not 

 game to ante-up a shilling a head to do some digging and 

 settle the point. This year Professor Marr and some friends, 

 he tells me, have ]3ut in a week's hard work there and find 

 I was not verv far out. 



Forty years have passed. Eoliths have come to their own. 

 Man has been tracked far beyond the glacial period, at least 

 to the times of the Red Crag. He proves to be of several 

 races: And I think it is also certain that though a race may 

 become modified it seldom, if ever, dies out. All the points 

 I claimed have proven to be points of light. 



I beMeve man developed very rapidly, but only after he 

 had learned to utiHse fire. That this occurred in a cold region. 

 It provided him with warmth and later with cooked food. 

 But chiefly it gave him leisure, it doubled his life, and sundown 

 no longer meant the close of a working day. How the leisure 

 hours by the camp-fire spHt his genio-hyoglossus muscle, as 

 boys used to spUt starhngs' tongues, to make him talk, I will 

 tell, with other heresies, unless the clock strikes ere I overcome 

 my repugnance to ink, and will again do the penance of the pen. 



Then, too, I beheve man very early branched into two 

 and only two sections — the Negro, and the rest. The Negro 

 took as bhnd a path as my old acquaintance Orang Utan, and 

 can no more advance than he can. To say he has never had 

 a chance, that he has always been downtrodden, is sentimental 

 flapdoodle. He has been on earth as long as we have ; he was 

 in contact with civiHsation thousands of years before we were ; 

 in fine, he had a better chance than we had. He is what he is 

 because he is what he is. 



I think it certain that wliite races may graduallj^ enlarge 

 their borders successfully ; they cannot emigrate to distant 

 lands and permanently occupy them. The White Man cannot 

 live in the United States or in Australia without transfusion of 

 blood from the homeland. 



