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Countries the most commercially advanced have the greatest 

 facilities in this respect ; and hence arises the sort of 

 popular paradox just hinted at, namely, that such countries 

 possess, relatively to the amount of business done, the 

 least amount of money. In other words, countries which, 

 as having the greatest commerce, are the richest, require, 

 and do actually possess relatively, the least money. In 

 ancient times when there was comparatively little of com- 

 mercial credit and the modern banking facilities, there 

 must always have been a large amount of money relatively 

 to the other wealth of society. We conclude that such 

 a condition was not to the enrichment but the impoverish- 

 ment of society, much as any other of its indispensable 

 habits would be if gone about after a like costly fashion. 



Money may be aptly compared to a road through a field. 

 The field at first, we will suppose, showed no tracks, as every 

 traveller in the business of passing through was finding his 

 own. By-and-bye some definite paths appear, and even- 

 tually one or other of these becomes the common highway, 

 broad and well-beaten, because used by every one. The 

 passengers' object; or design had not been to make a road, 

 but to get through the field ; nevertheless the road is 

 the result. The road we perceive, indeed, to be indispen- 

 sable for the object in view, but the illustration may help us 

 to apprehend as readily, that the less of the field we 

 must surrender to the road, the more of it will remain to us 

 for other uses. 



"WHERE ARE THE BONES OF THE MEN WHO 

 MADE THE UNPOLISHED FLINT IMPLEMENTS ?" 



By William Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



"T^pT'HY don't you find the bones of the men, as well as 

 ^&\P their implements ? is a rejoiner constantly made, 

 and with an unmistakable air of triumph, by those 

 who hear with disbelief the statement that human imple- 

 ments have been found with remains of extinct animals, in 

 cavern deposits and river gravels. It is unnecessary to say 

 that the question thus put is based on the following assump- 

 tions : — 



1st. That, under all conditions, the bones of man are as 

 conservable as those of other mammals. 



2nd. That no portion of the human skeleton has ever been 

 found in association with the extinct cave animals. 



