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resemblance in character to the elves and gnomes and sprites 

 nm-sery stories. At the same time, we mast be on our guard 

 reckless theorising, and it may be too much to assume that the 

 species ever inhabited P^urope, 

 in spite of the resemblance be- 

 tween the stone implements of 

 palaeolithic European man and 

 those of the modern Tasmanians 

 — and the Tasmanians were 

 negroid if not negro. Palfeolithic 

 man in Europe may have been 

 more like the Veddah, the 

 Australian, the Dravidian, the 

 Ainu, than the Bushman or 

 Congo Pygmy. Undoubtedly (to 

 my thinking) most " fairy " 

 myths arose from the contem- 

 plation of the mysterious habits ■ 

 of dwarf troglodyte races linger- 

 ing on still in the crannies, 

 caverns, forests, and mountains 

 of Europe after the invasion of 

 neolithic man. But we must not 

 too widely assume that these ex- 

 tinct Pygmy races were Negroes. ^ 

 They might well have been the 

 dwarfed descendants of eai'lier 

 and less definite human species ; 

 they may have been primitive 

 Mongols like the Esquimaux. 

 All the three species, or sub- 

 species, of Homo have developed 

 separately, repeatedly, and con- 

 currently, dwarf and giant races. 

 Tall peoples have arisen inde- 

 pendently one after the other in 

 Patagonia, in Equatorial Africa, 

 in North Africa, Syria, Northern 

 Europe, and Polynesia. Stunted 

 races have been evolved in 

 several parts of Africa, in 



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