Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . well formed, if not artistic. Brace-lets, brooches, and finger rings are foundwhich, though they may hardly be de-scribed as beautiful, are not devoid oftastefulness in design and elegance inexecution. It is noticeable, moreover,that the supply of implements, weapons,and personal decorations is far moreabundant in the case of the bronze-bear-ing villages than under those of the stoneepoch. Many museums have been r
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . well formed, if not artistic. Brace-lets, brooches, and finger rings are foundwhich, though they may hardly be de-scribed as beautiful, are not devoid oftastefulness in design and elegance inexecution. It is noticeable, moreover,that the supply of implements, weapons,and personal decorations is far moreabundant in the case of the bronze-bear-ing villages than under those of the stoneepoch. Many museums have been re-plenished from the resources here re-ferred to, and a single collection citedby Sir John Lubbock contains fourthousand three hundred and forty-sixspecimens; and it is an evidence ofwhat may be called the personal prideof the villagers of the bronze age that ofthe list of articles here enumerated morethan two thousand are hairpins and the age of bronze the human race en-tered upon its career of strength andvariety, but did not yet enter upon thecareer of ambition and vain delusionwhich it was to pursue in the age of iron. Chapter XVIII.—Coast People oe the E now turn to anotheraspect of primitive lifequite different fromthose discussed in thepreceding have reconstructedas far as practicablethe conditions of the old Aryan house-folk of India; of the cave dwellers ofWestern Europe, and of the lake dwell-ers who took advantage of the watersurface as a means of protection andconvenience. We now come to considera mode of prehistoric existence which was developed along the seacoast, espe-cially in the northern and northwesternparts of Europe. Of the forms of primeval life alreadypresented, the most barbarous was thatof the cave men; the most Relative sav-elevated, the house people JJKSES!of the East; and the most , the lake dwellers of Switzer-land and other like localities. In enter-ing upon a review of the people of theseashore, we
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