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not a fragment where other fragments more slender and 

 fragile occur in abundance. It is true, the search has yet 

 been confined to a small portion of Europe ; but the fact is 

 somewhat significant, and forbids any attempt at generalisa- 

 tion till wider areas in Asia and America have been ex- 

 plored. Till this is done, and till bones and crania have 

 been found and examined, it will be impossible to decide 

 the ethnographic character of these early men, or to say 

 whether they appeared in Asiatic, European, and American 

 species, and consequently arose from various creative centres, 

 or were merely time-distributed varieties of a single and 

 one-created form. Geology, as far as the facts have been 

 collated, gives no countenance to the idea of a plurality of 

 creative centres. On the contrary, the sameness of the 

 stone-implements, wherever they have been found, evince 



1, 2, From valley of Somme ; 3, 4, 5, England ; 6, 7, 8, Canada ; 9, 10, Scandinavia. 



a similarity of idea the same conception and the same 

 design. Those, therefore, who, disregarding the unity of 



