THE KINGDOM OF MAN 



from Professor Boule and M. Laville, of the French 

 School of Mines, who say that in the flint waste of a 

 cement factory at Mantes they have discovered " pseudo- 

 Eoliths " which are made by the action of the water of 

 the mill, and which resemble every known variety of the 

 so-called "Eolith." Their suggestion is that Eoliths 

 were not made by man at all but were produced by the 

 action of running water. To which the Eolithic anthro- 

 pologists retort that Eoliths ought surely to be produced 

 by running water now, and that some Seine-made Eoliths 

 would be more convincing. The differences between the 

 Mantes specimens and the "true*" Eolith cannot be 

 detected by the untrained eye ; but, spite of the French 

 sceptics, the school of believers in the genuineness of the 

 Eolith is growing. 



We need not enter further into these controversies, 

 and we need only say that flint implements of various 

 kinds are found all over the world, in Egypt before the 

 Pharaohs, in Australia, in South Africa, and indeed in 

 every continent. They are being made even to-day by 

 aborigines in Australasia, and there is even a "flint 

 knapping " industry which survives to-day at Brandon, in 

 Suffolk, though these flints are not intended for use as 

 spear-heads or arrow-heads or anything so primitive. 

 There is little geological evidence to show the place where 

 man first appeared ; but what we know of his frame and 

 constitution induces us to believe that somewhere in the 

 warm climate of Southern Asia was his first habitation. 

 From this, or from some similar tract in that quarter of 

 the globe, there seems to have been four great migratory 



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