Kelts anived they secin to have found those monuments, 

 and to have used them for their worship, which had some- 

 thing of sun-worship in it. 



Now, assuming tliese monuments to point to a much 

 earher race than the Kelts, they are still much more recent 

 than the Pole-olitliic man — more recent by thousands of 

 ye-ai's. 



In coimection with these monuments yfe find graves 

 and skeletons of a race of men, generally small with long- 

 heads (in the oldest gi-aves). We also find stone implements 

 chipped and polished. In short, they were a more civilized 

 type of man. Now, whence ca^me they? We have no evi- 

 dence of the beginning of this civilization. They came with 

 it already formed, but fortunately they have left traces of 

 their journey. No people ever left more clear or magnificent 

 monuments of its progress. Working back from the British 

 Isles, and the north of Europe, we find the same stone 

 monuments m Belgium and Britany, and down through 

 Spain and Portugal. Gross over to Africa and still they 

 continuej getting moi'o rude and primitive. Proceedmg 

 again ea^stward, we find them nearly to the ]x)rder of Egypt. 

 It seems then 8,s if this primitive race, the Neolithic man, 

 cajme along the north coa.st of Africa up tlnx>ugh Europe. 

 Possibly his begimiings of culture cam.o from Egypt, that 

 home of all civilization. At any rate, the culture grew and 

 developed as it ca.me west and nortli. It seems that the 

 Neolithic men moved s^o^vly, settling and developing as 

 they moved, and leaving colonies at evei-y point. The Ber- 

 bers in Africa may represent the race no^^'. Tlie people of 

 Spain and Portugal and South of France arc made by a 

 fusion of their blood with that of later comers. The 

 Basques (t.hat strange people stranded in tlic Pyrenees) 

 seem to be a little colony left behind almost unmixed, and 

 recently some philologist has traced a connection bctAveen 

 the Basque and the Berber language. For many years the 

 Basque people, forming a little isolated Avorld in the F*yrc- 

 nees, were a complete puzzle to ethnologists, as their langu- 



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