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level of power and achievement. The Tasmanians, living under unstimulating conditions, remote from any other human competition or example, lagged behind the rest of the human brotherhood.[1]
About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.
- ↑ What is known of the Tasmanian Old Stone men is to be found in Roth and Butler's Aborigines of Tasmania. See also footnote on the Tasmanian language to Chapter XIII.
