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THE HUMAN SPECIES 



We must now pass on to consider the ancient representations 

 of the sun and moon, which point to a worship of the stars, 

 and thus to a higher plane of religious thought. For this 



FIG. 136. Ivory figure from 

 the side. (Homes, Urge- 

 schichte der Kunst.} 



FIG. 137. Ivory figure, excavated at Briinn, 

 natural size. (Homes, Urgeschichte 

 der Kutist.) 



worship assumed for- the first time the existence of higher beings^ 

 by which the stars themselves were governed. Coloured pic- 

 tures of the moon from the lake- villages of the Lake of Constance,, 

 and other Swiss lakes, are to be seen in large numbers in the 



