Hand, aims at no more than the generalized description of one or anot

Ve to the hammer, at any rate if you get down to the lower layers or "sases," for instance, the floorstone, or the black smooth-stone that is generally below water-level--has
served the needs of all the palaeolithic periods, and of the neolithic age as well, and likewise of

the modern Englishmen who fought with flintlocks at Waterloo,
or still more recently took out tinder-boxes with them to the war in
South Africa. And
what does this stand for in terms of the antiquity of man? Thousands of years? We do not know exactly;
but say rather hundreds
of thousands of years. CHAPTER III RACE There is a
story about the British sailor who was asked to state what he understood by a Dago. "Dagoes," he replied, "is anything wot isn't our sort
of chaps." In exactly the same way would an ancient Greek have explained what he
meant by a "barbarian." When it takes this wholesale form we speak, not without reason, of race-prejudice. We may well wonder in the meantime how far this prejudice answers to something
real. Race would certainly seem to be a fact that stares one in the face. Stroll down any London street:
you cannot
go wrong about that
Hindu student with features rather like ours but of a darker shade. The short dapper man with eyes a little
aslant is no less unmistakably a Japanese. It takes but a slightly more practised
eye to pick out the German waiter, the French chauffeur,

and the Italian vendor of ices. Lastly, when you have made
yourself really good at the game, you will be scarcely more likely to confuse a small dark Welshman
with a broad florid Yorkshireman than a retriever with a mastiff. Yes, but remember that you are judging by the gross impression, not by the element of race or breed
as distinguished from
the rest. Here, you say, come a couple of our American cousins. Perhaps it is their speech that

betrayeth them; or perhaps it is the general cut of their jib. If you were to go into their actual pedigrees, you would find
that the one had a Scotch father and a mother from out of Dorset; whilst the other was partly Scandinavian and partly Spanish with

a tincture of Jew. Yet to a ll intents and purposes they form one type. And, the more deeply you go into it, the more mixed we all of us turn out to be, when bree