The Peopling of America
X48 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 the strength of this soil; and though sometimes he all seem to belong to...
...There moved down the west coast to Mexico, forming the may even have been small settlements made by these, Hupa, and also to Arizona, constituting the Apache...
...One years have elapsed since the ice fully disappeared from wishes that those who were unable to attend might the region of the Great Lakes...
...But that does not answer the question he has all serious ethnologists concurring with him as to where the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas got their in his first point...
...headed, and were the progenitors of the Algonquins, Iroquois, Sioux, and Shoshone groups, which spread THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA as far as Tierra del Fuego...
...The Lost Atlantis theory great races of Central America came from Cambodia...
...civilization...
...mental tenderness of the man, even as it is an expres- That brings us to the second question-how did sion of sad conviction that the voice of "one crying man come...
...Hrdlicka points out that the relics in same breath shows that the level was quite highnorth-eastern Asia, whether skeletal or of implements, perhaps not unlike that of Carthage in its prime...
...Not, of course, on horseback-for the in the wilderness" would not be listened to in its own horse was not known until white men brought it to generation...
...Though his criticism was either quite late in Paleolithic days, or in the concerned with subjects now largely out of mode, it early Neolithic age-probably from ten to fifteen itself had that precious quality of virility which is the thousand years ago...
...The latter, broadsage, in the Alaskan region...
...X48 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 the strength of this soil...
...These calculations must, of the hope that the idea may take root elsewhere...
...but that the two can be spoken of in the America...
...ent views, be long after the termination of the last Therefore, it is encouraging to note the appear- glacial epoch...
...Then, doubtless, they walked-and, tary pages of counsel, of profound scholarship and having regard to the rigors of the climate and food effective thinking, as worthy of disinterment as are difficulties, they probably came in small bands...
...Some day, perhaps, they will live again...
...Then came a second flood, but this time of broadA NYTHING which Dr...
...It is a docu- new country, he did so under conditions not greatly ment which touches the heart and reveals the funda- differing from those of today...
...That would, according to presfoe of all dilettanteism...
...But buried in his heavy books are salu- this continent...
...Hrdlicka may feel sure that seed-eaters...
...intellectual things it produced, he was interested in Relying on this evidence, he concludes that man did nothing more deeply than in its aptitude to flower into not cross over from the old to the new world until a sturdy cultural harvest...
...probably of a temporary nature, and little affecting Over and above all this, remains the enigma of the racial character of the district...
...Ales Hrdlicka has to say headed people, which worked its way down the northabout the ethnology of this continent is always west coast as far as Peru, and is known as the Toltec worthy of careful attention...
...The dinner recently tendered on the erosion at Niagara and at the Falls of Saint by this youthful organization was first of all a pledge Anthony-both, like all important waterfalls, postto the memory of Brownson, and an expression of glacial phenomena...
...First, when did these means as advanced as European civilization of the immigrations take place...
...That there may have headed, and of all Amerindians most resembling the been, from time to time, landings made on the western north-eastern Asiatic Mongol, found its path stopped, shores of the continent by Chinese, or denizens of most of them remaining in Alaska...
...and though sometimes he all seem to belong to the new-stone period of the old stalked like a grim, destructive harvester among the world, and are, consequently, of no very great age...
...In his recent report type...
...the great and cruel civilizations of the central regions All this we may admit without surrendering to the -what caused the great development there, and preutterly unproved theory that the civilization of the vented it in other parts...
...This district was, no doubt, one This theory is based upon a supposed, but much dis- of intensive cultivation-a form of culture belonging puted, representation of an elephant's head on the to a higher civilization than that of nomads or wild Copan Maya stela...
...Finally, so far as any considerable immigrations (Smithsonian) on the Amerindian race, he stresses his were concerned, came the invasions which produced belief, in common with the great majority of ethnolo- the Eskimo and the Athapascan...
...Quali- course, be tentative, but Professor Coleman, F.R.S., fied speakers-in fact, they were among the best ob- a great authority on the glacial period, has recently tainable-stressed the significance, the patriotism, and given it as his opinion that about twenty thousand the genius of the famous editor and pamphleteer...
...If dates are right, it was not by any There follow two questions...
...If that be so, we may be led to read at least the Valedictory appended to suppose that when man first began to penetrate this the last issue of Brownson's Quarterly...
...The former spread gists, that this race is homogeneous, entering America all over the north, and formed the most specialized from Asia, by what we may call the north-west pas- of all the Amerindian types...
...Some, however, the South Sea Islands, is highly probable...
...the strong memorials of earlier American art and Hrdlicka thinks that the first to arrive were longhandiwork...
...or, how old is man in same era...
...is wholly unproved...
...ance, in Eucharistic Chicago, of a pleasant circle of Calculations regarding this epoch are largely based "Friends of Brownson...
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