102 GEQIfOGY AND HISTORY 



'general VieW'm'* finding that the small, fine-featured 

 . ; ;i^ierii\^ho^su;ccce.v:led the giants of the olden time were 

 in some more genial parts of the world extant from 

 the first. Nay, it may even appear that they were 

 similar to the Truchere race, and that still more primi- 

 tive people whose bones are yet unknown, and who 

 inhabited Europe in the early mild period preceding 

 the mammoth age. Neither is there anything ano- 

 malous in the occasional reappearance of characters 

 similar to those even of the Canstadt race at the 

 present time, not because any modern men are direct 

 descendants of this race, but because under certain 

 conditions these characters tend to be reproduced. 

 Let us put the case conjecturally as follows : 



The original men who peopled the northern 

 continents after the first glacial period were of 

 small stature, agile, and well formed, with mild 

 and pleasing countenance and heads of the medium 

 (mesitocephalic) type. They were dwellers in a 

 warm climate and subsisted on fruits. As popula- 

 tion increased and men became hunters and fisher- 

 men, and wandered widely over the world, a large- 

 boned, coarse-featured, and savage type of man arose, 

 such as we find in the older caves and gravels, and 

 weapons of kinds not needed in primitive times were 

 invented. In this state of affairs, when the coarser 

 and stronger races had made themselves masters of 

 the world, and had perhaps partially intermixed with 

 the older and more peaceful peoples, a great diluvial 

 catastrophe occurred, which swept away the greater 



