THE DA WN OF MIND 175 



Yet should it ever thus be told, the mystery of 

 Mind itself would remain the same. For the most 

 this could do would be to replace one mystery by 

 a greater For what greater mystery could there 

 be than that within the mystery of the Mind itself 

 there should lie concealed the very key to unlock 

 its mystery? 



To pass from this fascinating region to the 

 material contributions of Anthropology is a some- 

 what abrupt transition. But this third line of 

 approach to a knowledge of the earlier phases of 

 Mind need not detain us long. 



So patient has been the search over almost the 

 whole world for relics of pre-historic Man, that vast 

 collections are now everywhere available where the 

 arts, industries, weapons, and, by inference, the mental 

 development, of the earlier inhabitants of this planet 

 can be practically studied. On the two main points 

 at issue in the discussion of mental evolution these 

 collections are unanimous. They reveal in the first 

 instance, traces of Mind of a very low order existing 

 from an unknown antiquity; and in the second place, 

 they show a gradual improving of this Mind as we 

 approach the present day. It may be that in some 

 cases the evidence suggests a degenerating rather 

 than an ascending civilization ; but perturbations of 

 this sort do not affect the main question, nor neu- 



