Daniel Wilson

Prehistoric Man Daniel Wilson

THE subject primarily treated of in the following pages is the man of that new hemisphere which was revealed to Europe in 1492. There through all historic centuries he had lived apart, absolutely uninfluenced by any reflex of the civilization of the Ancient World; and yet, as it appears, pursuing a course in many respects strikingly analogous to that by means of which the civilization of Europe originated. The recognition of this is not only of value as an aid to the realization of the necessary conditions through which man passed in reaching the stage at which he is found at the dawn of history; but it seems to point to the significant conclusion that civilization is the development of capacities inherent in man.