ds of cooking--Destitute of the potter's art--Their
weapons--Clothing--Their skill in drawing--Evidence of a government--Of
a religious belief--Race of the Cave-men--Distinct from the Men of the
Drift--Probable connection with the Eskimos.

Chapter V. ANTIQUITY OF THE PALEOLITHIC AGE.

Interest in the Antiquity of man--Connected with the Glacial Age--The
subject difficult--Proofs of a Glacial Age--State of Greenland
to-day--The Terminal Moraine--Appearance of the North
Atlantic--Interglacial Age--Causes of the Glacial Age--Croll's
Theory--Geographical causes--The two theories not antagonistic--The date
of the Glacial Age--Probable length of the Paleolithic Age--Time Since
the close of the Glacial Age--Summary of results.

Chapter VI. THE NEOLITHIC AGE IN EUROPE.

Close of the first cycle--Neolithic culture connected with the
present--No links between the two ages--Long lapse of time between
the two ages--Swiss lake villages--This form of villages widely
scattered--Irish cranogs--Fortified villages--Implements and weapons of
Neolithic times--Possessed of pottery--Neolithic agriculture--Possessed
of domestic animals--Danish shell-heaps--Importance of flint--The art
of navigation--Neolithic clothing--Their mode of burial--The question of
race--Possible remnants--Connection with the Turanian race--Arrival of
the Celts.

Chapter VII. THE BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE.

Races of Men, like Individuals--Gradual change of Neolithic Age to
that of Bronze--The Aryan family--First Aryans Neolithic--Origin of
Bronze--How Great discoveries are made--Gold the first metal--Copper
abundant--No Copper Age--The discovery of Tin--Explanation of an
Alloy--Bronze, wherever found, the same composition--What is meant
by the Bronze Age--Knowledge in other directions--Gradual Growth of
Culture--Three Centers of Bronze production--Habitations during
the Bronze Age--The Bronze Ax--Implements of Bronze--Personal
ornaments--Ornaments not always made of Bronze--Advance in Arts of
living--Advance in Agriculture--Warlike Weapons--How they worked
Bronze--Advance in Government--Trade in the Bronze Age--Religion of the
Bronze Age--Symbolical figures--Temples of the Bronze Age--Stonehenge.

Chapter VIII. THE IRON AGE IN EUROPE. Bronze not the best
metal--Difficulties attending the discovery of Iron--Probable steps in
this discovery--Where this discovery was first made--Known in Ancient
Egypt--How this knowledge would spread--Iron would not drive out