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PRIMEVAL MAN. 



natural knowledge. It is only to be accomplished by sus- 

 tained and patient labour. The generalized results to which 

 the tedious details lead, and which alone go to increase the 

 common stock, once arrived at are readily dressed up in a fit- 

 ting garb, and when skilfully combined along with cognate 

 materials, they produce the same pleasurable effect which is 

 yielded by the contemplation of exquisite forms in fragile 

 porcelain, artistically disposed in an elegant cabinet. But 

 the intelligent observer will not rest satisfied with the mere 

 aesthetic effect of the ensemble ; he will be curious to know 

 something of the nature of the crude material, of the pro- 

 cesses by which they have been elaborated, of the hands 

 which have moulded them into shape or laid on the har- 

 monious colours, and of the ateliers which have sent them 

 forth as finished works. And so the reflecting reader, whose 

 interest has been enlisted in some newly-explored region, 

 will not be indifferent to a narrative of the devious routes 

 and toilsome journeys, by which the travellers themselves 

 have acquired the knowledge which now engages his atten- 

 tion. In this spirit, I trust they will regard the preceding 

 remarks as an excusable vindication of the share that Mr. 

 Prestwich and myself have had, first, in the investigation of 

 the Quaternary deposits and ossiferous caves, which have 

 led up to that of the localities in which human relics of great 

 antiquity occur ; second, in the investigation of the relics 

 themselves, and the conditions under which they are found. 



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