COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 397 



Senor Troncoso has never heard of an ancient Mexican cast-copper 

 chisel hardened by alloy, and it is difficult to conceive of so soft a metal 

 doing effective work on the stones in question. 



In here ending this notice it is needless to say that but few of the 

 thousands who visited the Madrid Exposition realized the relation of 

 these chipped objects of stone to the whole display. 



The eye was dazzled by brighter tokens of human handiwork, and 

 the story of the New World was forgotten before the manifold marvels 

 of art and craft that proclaimed what Europe was at the time of the 

 discovery. To many it sufficed that rude stone tools were not beautiful. 

 The deeper meaning of the primitive shapes was overlooked. Yet they 

 alone spoke of the mystery of a &quot;New World&quot; that was not new, and 

 told of races who, though separated from their fellows, had moved and 

 developed as parts of one humanity. Fraught with problems that con 

 cern man s being, they reminded him not of art or beauty, but of his 

 own childhood; not of a day of dawning greatness, but of a night in 

 the unknown past out of which he emerged. 



