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Mesopotamia and Egypt are generally
seccpted as the first homes OF man. Com
fatatively speaking, this means modern
man man as he appears today, man who
began TO make records OF bis dcings and
who thus became historical man.
But back of the men of Mesopotamia and
Egypt back into the dimmest twilight OF
time. was primordial man-hesvy-muscled,
iow.browed. sunEen-eyei. british, rave,
nous, murderous lie was an animal
among the other animals; hunting animal,
like the lion aud the leopar and the hyena
and wolf He could do Iattle with the
gorilla, race with the reirdeer, struggle
with the cave.bear, or untwiss the coils of
fhe python. The men of the first stone sge
we're not savages; they We're beasts. They
iive,. thousands OF years before men ad-
yanced sufficiently to become s.lvages.
In France 10000 years ago--naybe I00.-
600. maybe 2oa! oa!ooo--ttese primordial men
Erred. Primordial o. also lived in otter
lands, but nowhere on >he earth did they
advance SO near to civilization as in
France. The soil of France. the irountains.
the caverns, tire valleys. the very at
mosphere were conducive 10000 years ago,
and are conducive to-day, to progress.
Away back in the first warm interval fol
lowing the first glacial period. the inha-
illtants cg France were making progress
They oatstripped the rest of the world
then. as they are outstripping it today. in
the fine arts. Always these primorsiiai
men of France were in the lead OF other
prinordial men.
-Four Ice Inundatisns
Four .isres in the history ef the world
the great Ioiar ice-cap has crept down into
tas tenpes.te regions of Europe and Amer
s-a- This terrible monster, advancing re-
ssstlessly into the belt OF vegetation. oblit-
STATED life as it progressed demolished
.very v@stige of habitation. and trampIed
under foot the very face of nature Forests
were crashed down before 1t. meadows
smotbered beneath its awful weight. rivers
turned from their courses. lakes crowded
eat of their basins. rocks. ground to. powder.
1t filled up the bottom of the sea and broke
Off the tops of mountains. Its icy breath
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iowlands.
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eo"h 'ne hi'ef A''ione :" tne pi'.ee "heie
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with the frie;d breath of the great Polar
invader to desolate the fields of France
The climate OF Lapland came upon France.
the reindeer and the musk-ox grazed in the
river valleys, and the arctic fox prowied
on the plateaus- Every plant and tree and
bird and blossom and animal indigenous
10 France, fled southward as the frigid
blight of the glaciers settled upon the
land-exeept man; be remained; he defied
the breath of fhe ice; he chased the, rein
deer and trapped the arctic fox and hunted