ABSTRACT
RECAPITULATION OF RESULTS ARRIVED AT IN THE EARLIER CHAPTERS—AGES OF STONE AND BRONZE—DANISH PEAT AND KITCHEN-MIDDENS—SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS—LOCAL CHANGES IN VEGETATION AND IN THE WILD AND DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY COEVAL WITH THE AGE OF BRONZE AND THE LATER STONE PERIOD—ESTIMATES OF THE POSITIVE DATE OF SOME DEPOSITS OF THE LATER STONE PERIOD—ANCIENT DIVISION OF THE AGE OF STONE OF ST. ACHEUL AND AURIGNAC—MIGRATIONS OF MAN IN THAT PERIOD FROM THE CONTINENT TO ENGLAND IN POST-GLACIAL TIMES—SLOW RATE OF PROGRESS IN BARBAROUS AGES—DOCTRINE OF THE SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE AND ENDOWMENTS OF THE ORIGINAL STOCK OF MANKIND CONSIDERED—OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS, AND THEIR COINCIDENCE WITH THOSE OF THE MODERN PROGRESSIONIST—EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILISATION AND ITS DATE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT OF THE FIRST AND SECOND STONE PERIODS.
