[7] Miller had adopted the "stratification theory" of Professor William Robertson of Edinburgh University, who, in his The History of America (1777), wrote: "Men in their savage state pass their days like the animals round them, without knowledge or veneration of any superior power".
[8] Custom and Myth (1910 edition), p. 13. Lang's views regarding flints are worthless.
[9] The last division of the Tertiary period.
[10] It must be borne in mind that the lengths of these periods are subject to revision. Opinion is growing that they were not nearly so long as here stated.
[11] Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. XLIII, 1913.
[12] For principal references see The Races of Europe, W. Z. Ripley, pp. 172 et seq., and The Anthropological History of Europe, John Beddoe (Rhind lectures for 1891; revised edition, 1912), p. 47.
[13] That is, the tall representatives of the Crô-Magnon races.
[14] Men of the Old Stone Age, pp. 335-6.
[15] Myths of the New World, p. 163.
[16] Cults of the Greek States, Vol. V. p. 243.