186 FOSSIL MEN. 



continuance of the different modes of life, and they 

 necessarily lead to hostility of races, one of which 

 prides itself on strength and power, the other on finesse 

 and cunning. 



It was at one time difficult to say whether in America 

 and Europe the large or the small races were the earlier, 

 or whether there is any difference in this. It used to 

 be maintained that in Europe generally, as the Scandi- 

 navian antiquaries still believe with reference to that 

 country, the smaller short-headed race was the earlier ; 

 but recent discoveries in the French caves and rock 

 shelters seem to negative this, and to show that a race 

 of great stature and large cranial development had the 

 precedence. So while in historic periods the Indians 

 of eastern America have been destructive to the Esqui- 

 maux, and have been at least restricting their range, 

 there seems no certain evidence that, on the western 

 coast, where the two races graduate into each other, 

 they may not have been contemporaries from the first, 

 and some have regarded the Esquimaux as the later of 

 the two. In any case, the graduation of the one race 

 into the other in the west, while they are markedly 

 distinct on their confines in the east, is an important 

 fact. Just as, even in antediluvian times, there were 

 Nephelim, or men of strength and of violence as dis- 

 tinguished from the rest of the world, and as in ancient 

 Palestine there were certain races noted for their 

 stature, and as the same differences obtain at the 

 present day, so they may have always existed both in 

 Europe and America, and may have fluctuated in their 



