Thus we have given a clear picture of prehistoric China and its civilisation as it is recorded in the most ancient historical monuments of China in the elementary characters. The mote details they furnish us about this life and state of civilisation, the more interested we get in details and the more we want to know how those men of prehistoric China may have looked, and reader to a very noticeable fact, which shows the prehistoric Chinaman already knew how to hit the true picture even in s0 simple a stroke as represents the nose. Does not a representation of the nose through one horizontal stroke just as wide as the mouth remind us of the pure Chinese nose with its great breadth and flatness Character 109 {IE) representing the eye. Both forms are a clear demonstration of what we have said about the eye in looking over the general form of the head. As annatter of course the eye included in such hollow orbit must have looked quite round. What a difference between the almond eye of the historical and the round eye of the prehistoric Chinaman! We must leave it an open question for the school of Darwin whether such a difference can be accounted for by simple development or whether it is only possible by the pure prehistoric Chinaman having been mixed up with other aboriginal races.
Character 139 YY representing the nose, On the whole that character represents the common, flat, broad Chinese nose, but the character furnishes still further details. The nose as drawn above shows only a very suiall and depressed nasal bridge which of course must have formed with the vaulting front a sort of a right, angle The outer walls of the nasal cay cavities being very fleshy seemed to fuse their roots on to the prominent malar bones, a fact which is shown in the character very correctly, simply, and strikingly, by the outer walls curving atthe root to the right and left.
Character 128 Q__ representing the ear.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.