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soil, food, activities, and natural surroundings to 

 which they have been subjected. 



10. Infant and Advanced Races. 



Some races have made great changes in their 

 appearance and surroundings and nature and 

 powers of mind, and are today very different 

 from those far-oif Lemurians who dwelt so long 

 ago in that cradle land of India. Other races have 

 been more fixed. They have remained more near- 

 ly in the early condition. We call these latter 

 savages. Savages are merely people who are in 

 the infant stages of human development. They 

 have never growm up. They are ** child races." 



Most of the broAAm race are still in this prim- 

 itive condition of mankind. And a large part of 

 the people of Africa are either in the savage stage 

 or the stage of barbarism, which is intermediate 

 between savagery and civilization. Some of the 

 lowest Indian tribes were in the savage stage 

 w^hen first found by white peoples, but. most of 

 them were in the stage of barbarism. The race 

 which has been most talented and enterprising 

 and which has played the most distinguished role 

 in the affairs of the world has been the white race. 



11. Ages of Mankind. 



Man\s first tools were probably of wood or 

 stone. It doesn't require a high order of ingenu- 

 ity to turn a limb of a tree into a club or a stone 

 into a missile, but it is more ingenuity than most 



