THE HEIDELBERG RACE. 



In 1007 was discox-crcd a huinan jaw in a sand pit at Maucr, 

 near Hcidelhern;, at the depth of 79 feet from the upper surface of 

 a high bluff in river sands which had yielded many specimens of 

 ancient mammals. 



This is the earliest specimen of human skeleton recorded in 

 Europe and the most unique lower jaw ever before found. 



It had drifted down from a p;reat distance, yet fortunately for 

 science, it had retained the teeth which, though primitive, are es- 

 sentially human, as well as the lower jaw, which is of greater massive- 

 ness than that of the Neanderthal type, and lacks any chin formation. 

 \\'hen other discoveries are made to confirm the indications offered 

 by the Heidelberg jaw, it will be demonstrated that the Mauer sands 

 type was of extreme primitiveness and one of the earliest progenitors 

 of our race. 



THE TRINIL RACE. 



By far the most sensational anthropological discovery was made 

 by Eugen Dubois, a Dutch army surgeon, on the Bangawan River 

 of Central Java in 1891. A portion of the skull, two teeth and a 

 thigh bone (later supplemented with a molar by the Selenska expe- 

 dition of 1907-1908) were discovered near Trinil. 



These remains, incomplete though they are, unique as they re- 

 main, constitute specimen of the earliest known race of men. In 

 fact Pithecanthropus, as has been called the Trinil man, sets back 

 the appearance of our race to the Pleistocene age, as evidenced by 

 the specimens of fauna discovered about his remains and confirmed 

 also by geology. 



While the scant material found by Dubois is of priceless im- 

 portance, it may be soon confirmed by some new discovery which 

 will establish the Trinil race on a more definite base. Meanwhile, 

 Pithecanthropus, the last known link in the chain of our ancestry, 

 remains the fertile ground of speculation of scientific and psychic 

 research in attempting to decide whether the being discovered in Java 

 was really a man or a creature just below, and a progenitor of our 

 own race. 



Theory is not exact science, and with the lack of more definite 

 information one must pause on the misty shores of the past and 

 patiently wait for more scientific enlightenment. 



What seems definitely acquired is that human mind, art and 

 industry dawned upon the world with the first stages of the Pleisto- 

 cene or ice age of the quaternary, and laboriously but steadily moved 

 onward for four hundred and fifty centuries, toward the conquest of 

 the stone, copper, bronze and iron idustries leading to the rise of 

 present world civilization. 



From the average geological calculations, that triumphal march 



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