THE BRAIN OF FOSSIL MAN 429 
shaped in a mould so similar to our own was one which 
responded to the outside world as ours does. Piltdown 
man saw, heard, felt, thought, and dreamt much as we 
still do. If the eoliths found in the same bed of gravel 
were his handiwork, then we can also say he had made 
a great stride towards that state which has culminated in 
the inventive civilisation of the modern western world. 
