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Cro-magnon ? In answer, I would say that 

 there is no good reason to regard the first 

 man as having resembled a Greek Apollo or 

 an Adonis. He was probably of sterner and 

 more muscular mould. But the gigantic palaeo- 

 lithic men of the European caves are more 

 probably representatives of that fearful and 

 powerful race who filled the antediluvian world 

 widi violence, and who reappear in postdiluvian 

 times as the Anakim and traditional giants, who 

 constitute a feature in the early history of so 

 many countries. Perhaps nothing is more 

 curious in the rev,elations as to the most 

 ancient cave-men than that they confirm the 

 old belief that there were 'giants in those 

 days.' 



And now let us pause for a moment to 

 picture these so-called palaeolithic men. What 

 could the old man of Cro-magnon have told 

 us had we been able to sit by his hearth and 

 listen understandingly to his speech? — which, 

 if we may judge from the form of his palate- 

 bones, must have resembled more that of the 

 Americans or Mongolians than of any modern 

 European people. He had, no doubt, travelled 

 far, for to his stalwart limbs a long journey 

 through forests and -^^'er plains and mountains 



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