206 CORDEAUX: ADDRESS TO YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS, 
in stone—Fountains, Bolton, Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Byland, and Whitby 
—again the richest of Ecclesiastical architecture in York, Ripon, 
Beverley, Selby, and many another priceless monument of bygone ages. 
Not less noticeable, when we consider it, are the traces 0 
successive waves of the various races, which from the most remote — 
period—long before the dawn of history—from  paleolithic man 
downwards to the close of this Nineteenth Century, have occupied 
the soil, and who have loved, and fought, and bled, and in tum 
passed into the unknown country, from the very land—a portion 
which we occupy this evening. 
In considering the present position of man, we are apt too often 
to talk of a gradual advance from the lowest savagery to the highest 
civilisation. This is only true to a certain extent. Man, or some — 
sections of mankind, have adyanced rapidly—most rapidly—o 
certain lines ; and the cultivated and intellectual European 
is an enormous advance on the primitive hunter of the Wold. Ye 
there are races which, in the long procession of the ages, have 
stood absolutely still. The world has swept past them in the race 
of centuries, and left them stranded in a back eddy. There a© 
tribes yet, and many of them, who have scarcely emerged from the 
stone age. Neolithic man, in his first communings with nay 
when he first felt her magic touch—in the days before writing” — 
scratched on the tusks of the mammoth, or horns of the re : 
the likeness of those animals. So perfect are these sketches that We 
are astonished at the skill of the early Landseers and Bonheus ® — 
the race, At the present day, visit a camp of Lapps or Sam - 
and we are offered for sale pipes, spoons, and other articles of c~ : 
on which are etched figures of precisely the same character. 
hoofless reindeer, with a prodigality of horn. If a horse 18 aie 
r 
it is the clump-headed, hog-maned, rat-tailed wild horse 0 
Immeas 
the Bushmen—feeders on wild fruits, reptiles, and ee: 
language is a series of grunts and clicks; the extinct 
dress this evening 
uch a W “s 
devolution, as well as evolution. Ancient man was, by force a 
surroundings and habits, a healthy man; the weakest rs vid 
strongest survived to die of old age, or wounds infil 
beasts or foes in battle. He knew and cared nothing for from 
or of the many ills which flesh is now heir to. A ul, Fo jam 
a Yorkshire barrow, shows a flat palate, a broad and deep e ld 
Suggestive of former powerful muscular attachments ; teet: eis - 
