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extent. All travellers are struck with the curious similarity of 
their forms to those existing in Europe. They still erect menhirs 
in honour of deceased ancestors, whose spirit is supposed to dwell 
in the stone. The whole subject is very ably discussed in the 
work above quoted. But I do not remember to have met with any 
reference to the tablets which the Chinese worship, and in which 
the spirits of their forefathers are supposed to dwell. This seems 
to me a survival of the very old custom above referred to. On a 
review of the whole question, which cannot be pursued further in 
this paper, I am inclined to believe that the above temple-building 
'A LABGB TUMULUS AND ALTARS NEAR KOPAL, SIBERIA.* 
age coincides with the dawn of history and with the diffusion of 
sun- and serpent-worship through the world. 
c. Rise of a Material Civilization in the Race of Cain — 
First Separation of Science from Religion. 
54. In the book of Genesis we have the history of Cain, who, as 
the first murderer, is driven forth from the presence of Jehovah, 
and the curse pronounced upon him that the ground when tilled 
* Atkinson’s Travels , p. 179. 
