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three semi-savage tribes who came to England 

 from the borderlands of the Baltic fourteen or 

 fifteen centuries ago. The French are the de- 

 scendants cf the Gauls, who formed the scattered 

 population of warring and superstitious tribes 

 referred to by Julius Caesar in the opening lines 

 of his * Commentaries.' The blue-eyed Germans 

 came from the Cimbri, the Goths, and the Vandals, 

 those bold, wild hordes who charged out of the 

 north to battle with the power of Rome. And all 

 of the Aryan races — English, German, Italian, 

 Scandinavian, Russian, Roman, Greek, and Persian 

 — trace their ancestry back, by means of common 

 languages and legends, to a time when they were 

 wandering tribes of nomads tenting somewhere 

 on the plains of transcaspian Asia. 



In all our museums there are collections of the 

 relics of prehistoric peoples. These collections 

 consist of objects upon which men in distant ages 

 of the world have wrought — their weapons, orna- 

 ments, utensils, implements, and playthings — 

 which have been saved from the teeth of Time 

 by their durability. The character of the minds 

 which operated on these objects, which produced 

 and used them, may be inferred from the character 

 of the objects, just as the life and surroundings of 

 an ancient animal or plant may be inferred from 

 its fossil. These relics are of stone, bone, bronze, 

 and iron. They are found in almost every region 

 of the earth — all over Europe and its islands, in 

 western and central Asia, in China and Japan, in 

 Malay, Australia, and New Zealand, in the islands 



