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similar to tliat of the palseolithic man, are in the habit 
of ornamenting their bone and horn implements in the same 
way, and the style of designs has much resemblance to that 
of the Dordogne. 
From the cave near Schaffhausen harpoons, and the so- 
called commandostabe, which have been shown by Professor 
Boyd Dawkins to be really arrow straighteners, together 
with needles or bodkins have been found. The drawing of 
the piece of antler, with the engraving, were lithographed 
by Professor Heim with the greatest care and exactness, 
and every slip of the flint is shown, and measurements of 
the depth of the lines by an instrument specially arranged 
for it are given in the work I have referred to. Prof. Heim 
also argues that the preponderance of animals looking to 
the left over those looking to the right indicate a probability 
that the artists drew with the right hand. He concludes by 
saying, the race of zoo-artists were in their talents in 
advance of the means which were at their disposal. In the 
later races — for example the pile dwellers — the intellectual 
capacity and the resources in the midst of which the men 
grew up are more nearly balanced.” He also says “ that 
this was a premature attempt of the human genius, and that 
no partial inconsistent cultivation of a single talent can be 
maintained for a long period.” This last remark does not 
seem to be borne out, since the similarity of the Esquimaux 
and paleolithic man is undoubted, and would rather make 
us consider how persistent a low civilization may remain 
when there are few extraneous modifying circumstances. 
