THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 569 



anatomic structure of man in all times and of all races, I have sought 

 to place the similarity of his genius, as proved by the identity of his 

 conceptions. The ossuaries which contaiu the remains of his prede- 

 cessors, the custom of coloring his bones red after they had been 

 denuded of their flesh, the mysterious sign to which we have given 

 the name Swastika, and other conceptions, other almost universal 

 creations, whicli it would be easy to add, all tend toward the confirma- 

 tion of the knowledge given to us by the earliest arms, the first tools 

 and implements of flint, and the most ancient pottery. We believe it 

 impossible to misapprehend or mistake tlie multiplied proofs that flow 

 from modern researches, all of which affirm with an irrefutable elo- 

 quence the unity of the human species. 



