284 HOLMES: PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS OF ROMBA LDS MOOR. 
and sequences fitting in tlie history, and hitherto students have only- 
studied the conditions of humanity if History; but the advanced 
masters of philosophy now say that we are likely to profit more by a 
careful study of pre-historic man, than we can by that of man in 
historic times. The infancy and childhood, and what we call the 
barbarism of dawning civilisation are, if properly studied, most signi- 
ficant of what should be the right training for the future ; and the 
importance of a right training of society is of equal importance to 
society as the training of an individual is to himself. 
Affirming the study of the pre-historic to be important, we turn 
then with interest to those localities where pre-historic remains abound, 
and so we turn to the remains of Rombalds Moor, as not only ex- 
ceptionately abundant, but as singularly significant of fact and 
phenomena in the conditions of pre-historic humanity. Pre-historic 
remains, as now studied, all over the world are classed less in rela- 
tion to time and place than to circumstance and condition, seeing 
that we have to-day rude stone implements in use both north and 
south, exactly such as were commonly used in the most remote times, 
in England and elsewhere, when civilised. Broadly classed, the actions 
of humanity, and so of course their remains, relate first to the con- 
ditions of life ; second, to the respect of death ; and, third, to their 
regard of a future existence. Under these heads we have pre-historic 
remains of dwellings, inclosures, mounds for offence and defence, 
tools, pottery, and miscellaneous implements of war and peace. 
Under the second we have graves of all kinds; tumuli of earth, 
and cairns of stone ; dolmens, menhirs, and stone circles, in which 
are found remains of personal ornaments, implements, and objects of 
memorial or of use in relation to the dead. We have interments of 
simple burial, of attempts to preserve (rare), and of cremation or 
burning, in which the ashes are left or they are enclosed in urns 
specially made and used for the purpose. Over the dead thus placed 
for honour or regard we have green mounds and remains as instanced. 
Under the third head, the relations of the future, the remains are 
much more open to question, but judging from the present, that 
barbarous peoples, i.e., those now living in the conditions of pre- 
historic ages and people, we take certain remains to be evidences of 
