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XIV PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS

we do so. People will use such a word as race in the loosest manner, and base the most preposterous generalizations upon it. They will speak of a “British” race or of a “European” race. But nearly all the European nations are confused mixtures of brownish, dark-white, white and Mongolian elements.

A MAYA STELE
A MAYA STELE Showing a worshipper and a Serpent God. Note the grotesque faces in the writing Brit. Mus.

It was at the Neolithic phase of human development that peoples of the Mongolian breed first made their way into America. Apparently they

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