Show were fairies an actual race of men Dis discussed cued beliefs in fairies were ere at one time so un hersal and the superstitions which grew up regard ng these tiny creatures hive so many po ants in corn com mon that a lecture on the subject re bently was given at the meet ng of the br tish fish association is wh ch Is ne of the world s most famous bod es of scientists notes a writer in tl e mont real herald th a lecture wh ch eh had the intriguing title were I 1 illies in actual race of men alen treated th subject very seriously and was ft as lis hs bened to most attentively hely it Is just poss ble that the legends about fa ries had their root in fact it Is known that there have been successive ml orations grat ions of races and that in the course of these the aboriginal inhibit tants of many countr es have been wiped out by higher types so it may be that when the aryans who were mere the ancestors of the europeans of today arrived in europe they drove the original europeans people of a d efferent racial type to the wilder and less habitt habitable ble parts of the various countries where colonies of them persisted for some time liv ing in underground burrows and keep I 1 ing ng up a guerilla warfare against their conquerors this sort of thing has certainly happened in a number of other lands and the lower race some times I 1 angered on over long periods it if some stone age men clinging to old habits did actually survive side ba b side with later races it would help to explain one of the most curious of all superstitions about fairies |