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In. i r 41. Diagram of FfMCOc* on th- < . illn^ ..f thf ( a\.-rn of Mtamira. 



and slow were at a li-,-il\ ant,-i^- with the clever ami tin* 



.juirk. Docility <!' li-|M,-itiun, a i adiness to take up 



i- thods of foo.l L r 'tting, ami lM-tt-r appi'-ciation of 



u of per>i>t.-iit activity along peaceful rather 



than warlike lines must have c<unt<<l \\>r much. The 



uholesale wee<ling out of the less vigorous physically, 



of the sluggish intellectually, and, in general, of those 



least adapted to the conditions which made for progress, 



meant the survival and peri Mt nation of better racial >t-k. 



cess of selection operated to favor certain 



la>tin,LT cultural [ni'-nts as well as to extenninnt* 



let in unprogressivr .lin-ctions. The total conse- 

 see was that I'roin this srething riot of new ex 

 > and the con^ -tinir of .livri>- physical, in- 



tellectual, ami cultural .-I.-m.-nts, there emerged a 

 and higher culture, the neolithic. 



The neolithic men hail l.-arn.-.l the lesson of patience; 

 they had domeMicate.l the lnrse, ox, i tp, goat ami 



dog. The men of the rough stone ages had failed to 



