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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  we 
  may 
  from 
  other 
  sources, 
  all 
  our 
  know- 
  

   ledge 
  of 
  their 
  origin 
  and 
  growth, 
  how 
  much 
  

   more 
  is 
  this 
  true 
  of 
  far 
  distant 
  lands 
  over 
  

   which 
  the 
  advancing 
  tide 
  of 
  human 
  population 
  

   had 
  rolled, 
  or 
  was 
  then 
  rolling 
  its 
  mysterious 
  

   wave 
  ? 
  If 
  the 
  most 
  ancient 
  and 
  the 
  most 
  

   sacred 
  literature 
  in 
  the 
  world 
  tells 
  us 
  so 
  

   little 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  men 
  who 
  

   lived 
  and 
  flourished 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Euphrates, 
  the 
  Tigris, 
  or 
  the 
  Nile, 
  what 
  

   information 
  can 
  we 
  expect 
  to 
  find 
  in 
  it 
  

   respecting 
  those 
  who 
  were 
  probably 
  already 
  

   settled 
  on 
  the 
  Indus 
  and 
  the 
  Ganges, 
  or 
  

   were 
  spreading 
  along 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Brahmaputra 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Yellow 
  River 
  ? 
  

   What 
  of 
  those 
  tribes 
  who 
  were 
  following 
  

   the 
  Volga 
  and 
  the 
  Oxus, 
  or 
  the 
  Danube 
  

  

  