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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  But 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  of 
  Time-absolute. 
  

   No 
  farther, 
  with 
  even 
  an 
  approximation 
  

   to 
  the 
  truth, 
  can 
  we 
  measure 
  the 
  order 
  of 
  

   events 
  by 
  the 
  lapse 
  of 
  years. 
  

  

  But 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  point 
  at 
  which 
  the 
  evidence 
  

   of 
  Archaeology 
  begins 
  before 
  the 
  evidence 
  of 
  

   History 
  has 
  closed. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  border-land 
  

   where 
  both 
  kinds 
  of 
  evidence 
  are 
  found 
  to- 
  

   gether, 
  or 
  rather, 
  where 
  some 
  testimony 
  

   exists 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  say 
  whether 
  

   it 
  is 
  the 
  testimony 
  of 
  written 
  documents 
  or 
  

   of 
  the 
  inarticulate 
  monuments 
  of 
  Man. 
  It 
  

   was 
  the 
  habit 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  ancient 
  

   nations 
  in 
  the 
  world 
  to 
  record 
  all 
  events 
  in 
  

   the 
  form 
  of 
  pictorial 
  representation. 
  Their 
  

   domestic 
  habits, 
  their 
  foreign 
  wars, 
  their 
  

   religious 
  beliefs, 
  are 
  thus 
  all 
  presented 
  to 
  

  

  