iSo PRIMEVAL MAN. 



hatchets and rude knives used by tribes 

 which towards the close of the Glacial Age 

 had pushed their way to the farthest limits 

 of the lands which were then habitable. And 

 what follows ? The inevitable conclusion is, that 

 it must be about as safe to argue from those 

 implements as to the condition of Man at that 

 time in the countries of his Primeval Home, 

 as it would be in our own day to argue* 

 from the habits and arts of the Eskimo as to 

 the state of civilization in London or in Paris. 

 For here I must observe that Archaeologists 

 are using language on this subject which, if 

 not positively erroneous, requires, at least, 

 more rigorous definitions and limitations of 

 meaning than they are disposed to attend 

 to They talk of an Old Stone Age (Palso- 



