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uses, and will survivo for npfos yet, as lonj> as there 

 remain any out-of-the-way places, remote from the main 

 streams of civilised commerce. Thus, while hundreds of 

 thousands of years, in all prolnihility, separate us now 

 from the anc-iont days of the first potter, it is yet possible 

 for us to see the iirst potter's own methods and priuciples 

 exemplified under our very eyes by people who derive 

 them in unbroken succession from tho direct teaching of 

 that long- forgotten prehistoric savage. 



