BA< l i'LES 



The problem of the origin of the aboriginal American 

 peoples IB as difficult to solve as any racial pi 

 i rofessor Keane believes that the early inhahitants of 

 America came by two <IM m-t mut<-> : from Ah .vay 



of Bering Strait ; and in late- ] in western 



enland and Labrador. 1 * 



Airs llrdlicka has can-fully examined tin- remain* of 

 so-called prehistoric man in both North and South At 



i. and concludes that the evidence does not support the 



doctrine of paleolithic man in .1. II.- considers 



that ti .:;di>pnted geological evidence of an- 



and that the somatological evidence bears witness 



close affinity of tin- North American remains to 



se of the modern Indian. 151 The South American evi- 



ise of imp geological de- 



terminations and in the failure of those who were not 

 expert anthropologists to allow for the possibility of ac- 

 ,tal or artificial int roduction into ol<: ;inea. m 



The civilization of the races oi JKJ has spread with 



wonderful rapidity until it has set the standards of living 

 in the remotest islands of the Pacific, as it has determined 

 the culture ot -rent commercial empires. Civili/.ed man 

 has succeeded in subduing many of the forces of nature 

 and in con natural energy into forms serviceable 



H has grown to l -lieve that all peoples 

 who have not L-ained a similar control of natural forces 

 are to be pitied, that they represent a lower order of in- 



ct and that their culture is a lower order of achieve- 

 met is assumption that the l-lurop, ; m White race 



is superior to all other races is based upon the remarkable 

 achievements of the White race. 90 We conclude that, since 

 the 'ion is higher, it took a higher grade of mind 



it Keane, op. r,r . PP 392.364. 



\9Bumu of \rnrr Ktkmoloyy. Rul. S3. p. 96. 



. Bui. 53. p. 368. t BOM, op. of. p. 2. 



