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ceremony, in such relationship notwithstanding ever stood the union 
of human beings. The man would mourn for the loss of his help- 
mate. Death to human beings would always have had a different 
aspect to what death has to the beast. In the human heart there 
would be the innate desire to lay the lifeless corpse or its ashes where 
its resting-place could be visited. If the flint-implement men were 
human, such must have been, even in the first of this pristine race, 
the feelings w^iich death would evoke ; and if such the feelings, 
hurials or burnings must have disposed of the mass of that primitive 
race. If burials, we must look elsewhere than to the debris of 
floods or the alluvia of river-beds for human bones. 
AVe may search for a later but still early race near where the great 
monoliths and the gigantic stones of so-called Druids' temples exhibit 
their weather-beaten forms ; but if cremation were practised, then 
for all traces of the flint-implement makers, other than their works, 
we must trust to chance alone. 
The massive bones of the great beasts could not escape the eye ; 
the teeth and skulls of smaller animals would at once attract atten- 
tion ; but what notice would a few fragments of calcined bones 
amongst the debris and broken fragments obtain ? 
What explorer of caves, what digger in gravel-pits, has searched 
over the heaps of bone-bits always thrown aside as waste ? In this 
respect we have followed the common way ; but we are not without 
suspicion that more than once we have missed our chance. 
5. That icorJced flints, similar to those claimed as diluvial, have heen 
found in such a position that it has heen necessary to attribute to them 
a modern origin. — No instances are stated by M. Gras ; Ave cannot, 
therefore, refute any cases to which he alludes by statements of the 
facts. Besides which, if such specimens exist under such circum- 
stances, they may be forgeries ; or they may be relics — and this is 
not at all unlikely — preserved by more modern tribes. We know 
that the savage races of the present day do sometimes treasure the 
weapons of their ancestors ; and there are many other ways in which 
such occurrences may be explained when the actual circumstances 
are given. 
6. Tliat M. Toillez' axes have been collected at the surface of the 
soil. — This is put as a " poser " by M. Gras ; but strong as he 
thinks it, it goes down at once before a simple question. It is 
slaughtered by a breath. Do we not find ordinary gravel-^mt^ in 
myriads on the surface of the soil ? Can you go through any field, 
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