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Nor can we blame the doubters; for in such a case as this 
the believers must justify the claims of these very old imple- 
ments to acceptance on reasonable grounds. 
At the same time we must remind the eritics that— 
“The novel doctrine may be right 
In spite of cries of danger ; 
The best yard-dog will bark and bite 
Alike at every stranger.” 
It has been proposed to call these particular stone tools 
“eoliths,” or “tools of the early stone age,” and on the 
analogy of paleeolith and neolith. 
As will be seen later on, they are of far earlier date than 
the accepted paleeoliths, and we must use a scientific term 
compounded of two Greek words if we are to keep to a scien- 
tific nomenclature, agreeable to the established usage among 
naturalists. The ugly expression “plateaulith ” has been 
proposed; but it is as hybrid a word as “ bicycle” (Latin 
and Greek), and “cablegram” (English and Greek), for 
plateaulith is French and Greek. Purity of terminology 
pleads for “ Kolith,” which will be the term adopted in this 
paper. 
Sometimes the Eolithic Men are wrongly referred to as 
“Plateau Men.” ‘This is incorrect, because those men of the 
earliest Stone Age did not live on the Plateau, nor even see 
it. As explained later on they must have lived on thie 
heights afterwards reduced by natural causes to the 
Wealden Island and to the present Wealden Hills. 
The so-called Paleolithic Men subsequently lived on the 
Plateau and left their tools and implements there. 
SII. Holiths determined by Prestwich.—Sir (then Mr.) 
Joseph Prestwich, in 1859, in working out the Quaternary 
gravels of the Somme Valley, especially with reference to the 
tools of paleeolithic man, became interested in the occurrence 
of many roughly chipped flints, such as those with which 
M. Boucher de Perthes, after twenty-seven years’ enthusiastic 
labours, had acquainted the scientific world. 
Many years afterwards Prestwich’s attention was at- 
tracted to the remarkable series of peculiarly worked flints, 
of several distinct types, that Mr. Benjamin Harrison, of 
Ightham, had amassed trom the Kent plateau, near Ash, at 
heights of 500 to 700 feet and over, O.D.* 
* See A. M. Bell, “The Tale of the Flint,” Longman’s Magazine, 
January, 1898, pp. 214-225, for an account of Mr. Harrison’s work. 
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