APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Reckoned by centmies, the remoteness of the quarternary, or pleistocene, age from our own is immense, and it is difficult to form an adequate notion of its duration. Undoubtedly there is an abysmal difference between the Neandertbaloid mee and the comely living specimens of the blond longheads with whom we are familiar. Rut the abyss of time between the period at which North Europe was first covered with ice, when savages pursued mammoths and scratched their portraits with sharp, stones in central France, and the present- day. ever widens as we learn more about the events which bridge it. And, it the differences between the Neanderthalojd men and ourselves could he divided into as many parts as that time contains centuries, the progress from part to part would probably he almost imperceptible.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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135APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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