regarded as expressing the growth of human culture it may also 
symbolize the development of the race in numbers and in physical 
perf action* 
The figure indicated by B may stand for the career 
of a people of the lowest existing order of culture f such as the 
Puegians 6r Andamanese — peoples which can contribute to gen- 
eral history only in a very limited range, since their career 
traverses only the lower half of the filed of savagery. It is 
to be noted, however, that those lowly peoples can contribute 
much more fully to this particular stage of the history of pro- 
gress than can ariy of the nations that have passed this stage 
and have arisen to higher levels. 
The field covered by the American ro.ce is outlined in 
0. Uncertain and indefinite in the beginning stages the traces 
being hardly legible on account of the absence of records and 
the insufficiency of archeological research, it developed up- 
ward stopping Just short of the level of civilisation. Many 
