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call some living specimens of our race — a 

 brutal man, yet even this skeleton is in all 

 its proportions strictly human. Its cranial 

 capacity indicates a volume of brain, and 

 some peculiarities of shape not materially 

 different from many skulls of Savage races- 

 now living. The other skeleton, respecting 

 which the evidence of extreme antiquity is 

 the strongest, is not only perfectly human 

 in all its proportions, but its skull has a 

 cranial capacity not inferior to that of many 

 modern Europeans. This most ancient of all 

 known human skulls is so ample in its 

 dimensions that it might have contained the 

 brains of a philosopher. So conclusive is 

 this evidence against any change whatever in 

 the specific characters of Man since the oldest 



