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skilled and powerful peoples who erected them and 

 the rude fashioners of these quartzite implements'! 

 Not only the rising from barbarism to civilisation, 

 but the evolution of new nationalities, new languages, 

 new religions, new styles of architecture, and all, ia 

 fine, that constitutes new phases of humanity, must 

 have taken place ; and these things, judging from 

 the ordinary rate of progress, must have required 

 an enormous amount of time for their accomplish- 

 ment. 



But admitting that Europe was peopled by migra- 

 tions from the east, and that the flint-formers of Europe 

 were preceded by the quartzite- workers of Asia, there 

 is stiU no evidence that the quartzite-men of India 

 were the original inhabitants of the Asiatic continent. 

 We must carry the argument of ascensive develop- 

 ment still further, and believe that as the men of 

 Europe were descended from those of Asia, so the 

 Indo-European variety of our race was preceded by 

 the inferior varieties — Mongolian or Negritian — ia 

 the order of their physical and intellectual advance- 

 ment. So far as any argument drawn from language 

 can be of any avail, it points also in this direction — 

 the Turanian having preceded the Semitic and Arian, 

 or more broadly and generally, the monosyllabic 

 being older than the agglutinate, and the agglutinate 

 than the amalgamate. " As far as the formal part 



