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 .. . ens L a n dand Terra delFuego are to theprehistoric racesof the age of stonewhat the opossumand the sloth andthe kangaroo areto the extinct mar-supials, known only to the flint weapon in the hands of a liv-ing- savage is to an antiquary precisely PRIMEVAL MAX.—CONDITIONS OF SAVAGE LIFE. 367 what the horn-crowned nose of a rhinoc-eros or the projecting- tusks of a boarRelations of ex- are to a natural
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 .. . ens L a n dand Terra delFuego are to theprehistoric racesof the age of stonewhat the opossumand the sloth andthe kangaroo areto the extinct mar-supials, known only to the flint weapon in the hands of a liv-ing- savage is to an antiquary precisely PRIMEVAL MAX.—CONDITIONS OF SAVAGE LIFE. 367 what the horn-crowned nose of a rhinoc-eros or the projecting- tusks of a boarRelations of ex- are to a naturalist. Theisting races to gr t carries the mind back cheir barbarian. ancestry. to prehistoric implements found in the peat bogs of Denmark, andthe other reminds the inquirer of thehairy rhinoceros and the tremendoustusks of Elephas primigenius. ducible to two general considerationswhich are easily apprehended. Thefirst of these is what may be called theappearance of national consciousnessamong a people. Whenever this hap-pens—whenever a given tribe beginsto be conscious of itself—the nationaltongue will for the first time find utter-ance, and this utterance will take the. BEGINNINGS OF METALLURGY.—A Primitive Smithy.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. tween prehistoric and historicraces. One of the first inquiries with whichwe have here to deal is the fixing of aDemarkationbe- line between the prehistor-ic and the historic races ofmen. What is it to havebeen a truly prehistoric people ? and whatis it to lie distinctly within the historicera? The answers to these questionsinvolve several matters of much impor-tance and interest, but they are all re- form of narrative. The narrative maybe in the form of epic poetry, It maybe a half-formed anthropology or cos-mology, or it may be rude annals, reciting-fragments of tradition and filling up thespaces from imaginary materials. Atany rate, it is History. It is the earli-est development in the form of languageof a nations concept of itsel
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