The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

viii INTRODUCTION
It is important to remember that the skeletons
found in this strata were of the modern type of
man ; proofs that they were Stellar Cult people
were found buried with them ;
and that they lived
and died at this period, and were not accidental
burials, we have Professor Sergi's authority — a
most unimpeachable one. The Pliocene strata
were formed from 600,000 to 800,000 years ago. 1
Is any further proof necessary? In the Natural
History Museum at South Kensington
there is an
exhibit of peculiar interest, the reconstructed skull
of a primitive man, or woman, found by Mr. C.
Dawson in a pit at Piltdown Common, Sussex, in
the autumn of 191 2, on which Professor Wood-
ward gave a most interesting lecture at the Royal
Societies Club. In the discussion which followed
I then pointed out that the reconstruction of the
mandible must be quite wrong, for to put on to a
skull with a cubic capacity of 1200 cubic centi-
metres the jaw of a chimpanzee, is alone sufficient
that the reconstruction made is incorrect.
proof
The Pygmy has a cubic capacity of 900 cubic
centimetres, average, and I have found one with
only 850 cubic centimetres. The highest anthro-
poid ape is 600 cubic centimetres. This skull,
in my opinion, was a Nilotic Negro
exodus without Hero-Cult, types
exist in Australia and inner Africa.
1
"Genesis of Rocks," by Brenton Symois.
of the first
of which still