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far earlier period. That is, he must if certain theories as 

 to his evolution from lower animals are to be sustained. 

 This, however, is not a mode of reasoning in accordance 

 with the methods of science. 



A point on which Dawkins well insists, and which he 

 has admirably illustrated, is the marked distinction be- 

 tween the old paleocosmic men of the gravels and caves, 

 and the smaller race, with somewhat differently formed 

 skulls, which succeeded them, after the great subsidence 

 which terminated the Second Continental period and in- 

 augurated the Modern epoch. The latter race he identi- 

 fies with the Basques and ancient Iberians, a non- Aryan 

 or Turanian people, who once possessed nearly the whole 

 of Europe, and included the rude Ugrians and Laps of the 

 north, the civilized Etruscans of the south, and the Iberians 

 of the west, with allied tribes occupying the British Islands. 

 This race, scattered and overthrown before the dawn of 

 authentic history in Europe by the Celts and other in- 

 trusive peoples, was unquestionably that which succeeded 

 the now extinct paleocosmic race and constituted the men 

 of the so-called "Neolithic period," which thus connects 

 itself with the modern history of Europe, from which it is 

 not separated by any physical catastrophe like that which 

 divides the older men of the mammoth age and the widely 

 spread continents of the Post-glacial period from our 

 modern days. This identification of the Neolithic men 

 with the Iberians, which the writer has also insisted on, 

 Dawkins deserves credit for fully elucidating, and he 

 might have carried it farther, to the identification of these 

 same Iberians with the Berbers, the Guanches of the 

 Canary Islands, and the Caribbean and other tribes of 

 eastern and central America. On these hitherto dark 

 subjects light is now rapidly breaking, and we may hope 

 that much of the present obscurity will soon be cleared 

 away. 



