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The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races by Emory Adams Allen
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of land--The animals living in Europe during this age--
Conclusions drawn from these different animals--The vegetation
of this period--Different climatic conditions of Europe during
the Glacial Age--Proofs of a Glacial Age--Extent of the Glacial
Ice--Evidence of warm Inter-glacial Age--The primitive state of
man--Early English civilization--Views of Horace--Primitive man
destitute of metals--Order in which different materials were
used by man for weapons--Evidence, from the River Somme--History
of Boucher de Perthes's investigations--Discussion of the
subject--Antiquity of these remains--Improvement during
Paleolithic Age--Description of the flint implements--Other
countries where these implements are found--What race of men
were these tribes--The Canstadt race--Mr. Dawkins's views--When
did they first appear in Europe--The authorities on this
question--Conclusion.

The Tertiary Age, with its wonderful wealth of animal and plant
life, gradually drew to its close. In our "Outline" we have
named the period that next ensued the Glacial Age.<2> This was
sufficiently exact for our purpose then, but we must remember
this is the name<3> for a long series of years. During this
period great changes in climate occurred. At its commencement, a
genial temperate climate prevailed throughout Europe; and this,
as we know, was preceded, during the Miocene Age, by a warm
tropical one.<4> This succession, then, shows us that, for some
reason or other, the climate had been gradually growing colder.
This change went forward uninterruptedly. Doubtless very
gradually, from century to century, the seasons grew more and
more severe, until, finally, the Summer's sun no longer cleared
the mountains of the Winter's snow. This was the beginning of
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