CHAPTER VII.

TOOLS. Man the Artificer—The Law of Reason—Indigenous Races—Man’s Capacity for Deterioration—What is a Stone Period?—Materials of Primitive Art—Succession of Races—Indications of Ancient Trade—The Shoshone Indian—Texas Implements—Modes of Hafting—Deer’s-horn Sockets—Stone Knives—Thlinkets of Alaska—Metals of a Stone Period—Arts of the South Pacific—Malayan Influence—Fijian Constructive Skill—Fijian Pottery—Slow Maturity of Races—The Flint-edged Sword—The League of the Five Nations—Iroquois Predominance—Work in Obsidian and Flint—Honduras Flint Implements—Sources of the Material—Collision of Races—Fate of Inferior Races, 170