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the more desirable territory, driving its 

 intrusive competitor to the wall? 

 Were there proof that the original 

 invasion of our Alpine race from 

 the east had been a forcible 

 one, an answer to this 

 would be afforded by 

 a study of culture; 

 for it is now ac- 

 cepted generally that 

 the main arts of civi- 

 lization have entered 



western Europe from 

 the east. Moreover, 

 the present seat 

 of the Alpine race 

 was characterized 

 by a peculiarly ad- 

 vanced civilization in 

 early times. Thus the 

 extension of the so-called 

 Hallstadt culture a thousand 

 years or more before the Christian 

 era, not unlike that of the Etruscan in 

 Italy, coincided with the territory now 



