The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 269
Fig. 142. Roman Sculptured Stone, 34 inches long, found at Arniebog,Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire. 1 Buchanan, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot, vol. ix. p. 473. 246 APPENDIX. This,if I am not mistaken, is very much like those descriptions … 3 -& of savages with which we are familiar. At the same time, it is APPENDIX. 247 clearly the description of a man who, in the course of time, may-cease to be what we call a savage. On another Roman slab, discovered in the same year atBridgeness, near Carriden, Linlithgowshire, a group of four…
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