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and ancient Iberians, a non-Aryan or Turanian people who 

 once possessed nearly the whole of Europe, and included the 

 rude Ugrians and Laps of the north, the civilized Etruscans of 

 the south, and the Iberians of the west, with allied tribes occu- 

 pying the British Islands. This race, scattered and overthrown 

 before the dawn of authentic history in Europe by the Celts 

 and other intrusive peoples, was unquestionably that which 

 succeeded the now extinct Palaeocosmic race, and constituted 

 the men of the so-called " Neolithic period," which thus con- 

 nects itself with the modern history of Europe, from which it 

 is not separated by any physical catastrophe like that which 

 divides the older men of the mammoth age and the widely 

 spread continents of the Post-glacial period from our modern 

 days. This identification of the Neolithic men with the 

 Iberians, which the writer has also insisted on, Dawkins de- 

 serves credit for fully elucidating, and he might have carried it 

 farther, to the identification of these same Iberians with the 

 Berbers, the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the Caribbean 

 and other tribes of eastern and central America. On these 

 hitherto dark subjects light is now rapidly breaking, and we 

 may hope that much of the present obscurity will soon be 

 cleared away. 



Supposing, then, that we may apply the term Anthropic to 

 that portion of the Kainozoic period which intervenes between 

 the close of the Glacial age and the present time, and that we 

 admit the division of this into two portions, the earlier, called 

 the Palanthropic, and the later, which still continues, the Nean- 

 thropic, it will follow that one great physical and organic break 

 separates the Palanthropic age from the preceding Glacial, and 

 a second similar break separates the two divisions of the An- 

 thropic from each other. This being settled, if we allow say 

 2,500 years from the Glacial age for the first peopling of the 

 world and the Palanthropic age, and if we consider the modern 

 history of the European region and the adjoining parts of Asia 



