Fossil Men And Their Modern Representatives An Attempt to Illustrate the Chara
Fossil Men And Their Modern Representatives An Attempt to Illustrate the Chara
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" What wonder is it that time, which "antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments ; " and how strangely does it illustrate the religious fervour of the old mound-builders that they could sacrifice hundreds of these precious trophies of skill and labour in the fires of their altar hearths. Whatever the objects of their worship, or the ends they hoped to attain, they could give no costlier offerings unless they had offered their own li...ves on the altar. Lafitau informs us that the shaping and perforation of a tomahawk was some- times the work of a lifetime, and might be left un- finished by the patient artist whose life-work it had been. It is said that perforated pieces of rock-crystal, 152 FOSSIL MEN.
worn by the chiefs of some South American tribes, cost the labour of two men's lives. It is not surprising that arts like these perish immediately on the intro- duction of the implements of more civilized races, and drop out of the memory of the successors of the artists in a few generations.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" What wonder is it that time, which "antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments ; " and how strangely does it illustrate the religious fervour of the old mound-builders that they could sacrifice hundreds of these precious trophies of skill and labour in the fires of their altar hearths. Whatever the objects of their worship, or the ends they hoped to attain, they could give no costlier offerings unless they had offered their own li...ves on the altar. Lafitau informs us that the shaping and perforation of a tomahawk was some- times the work of a lifetime, and might be left un- finished by the patient artist whose life-work it had been. It is said that perforated pieces of rock-crystal, 152 FOSSIL MEN.
worn by the chiefs of some South American tribes, cost the labour of two men's lives. It is not surprising that arts like these perish immediately on the intro- duction of the implements of more civilized races, and drop out of the memory of the successors of the artists in a few generations.
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