THE ORIGIN AND ANTK^UITV OF MAX !)! 











I. 



After Cai tailliac and Breuil. 



I'lCiTRK 41. Diagram of Frescoes on tlio Coiling of tlie Cavern nf Altaniira. 



and slow were at a disadvantage with tlie clever and tlie 

 quick. Docility of disposition, a readiness to take up 

 new methods of food getting, and better appreciation of 

 the value of persistent activity along peaceful mther 

 than warlike lines must have counted for mucli\ The 

 wliolesale weeding out of the less vigorous physically, 

 of the sluggish intellectually, and, in general, of those 

 least adapted to the conditions which made for progress^ 

 meant the survival and perpetuation of better racial stockA 

 lUit the process of selection operated to favor certain 

 lasting cultural elements as well as to exterminate ten- 

 dencies in unprogressive directions. The total conse- 

 (juence was that from this seething riot of new experi- 

 ences and the constant testing of diverse physical, in- 

 tellectual, and cultural elements, there emerged a new 

 and higher culture, — the neolithic. 



The neolithic men had learned the lesson of patience ; 

 they had domesticated the horse, ox, pig, sheep, goat and 

 dog. The men of the rough stone ages had failed to 



