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of modern times into the conviction that all these things were the 

 result of a steady progress through long epochs. On a similar 

 plan, Mr. Southall proposed, at the very beginning of his book, as 

 a final solution of the problem, the declaration that Egypt, with 

 its high civilization in the time of Mena, with its races, classes, 

 institutions, arrangements, language, monuments — all indicating 

 an evolution through a vast previous history — was a sudden crea- 

 tion which came fully made from the hands of the Creator. To 

 use his own words, " The Egyptians had no stone age, and were 

 born civilized." 



There is an old story that once on a time a certain jovial King 

 of France, making a progress through his kingdom, was received 

 at the gates of a provincial town by the mayor's deputy, who 

 began his speech on this wise : " May it please your Majesty, there 

 are just thirteen reasons why his honor the mayor can not be 

 present to welcome you this morning. The first of these reasons is 

 that he is dead." On this the king graciously declared that this 

 first reason was sufficient, and that he would not trouble the 

 mayor's deputy for the twelve others. 



So with Mr. Southall's argument : one simple result of scien- 

 tific research out of many is all that it is needful to state, and this 

 is, that in these later years we have a new and convincing evi- 

 dence of the existence of prehistoric man in Egypt in his earliest, 

 rudest beginnings — the very same evidence which we find in all 

 other parts of the world which have been carefully examined. 

 This evidence consists of stone implements which have been found 

 in Egypt in such forms, at such points, and in such positions that 

 when studied in connection with those found in all other parts of 

 the world, from New Jersey to California, from France to India, 

 and from England to the Andaman Islands, they force upon us 

 the conviction that civilization in Egypt, as in all other parts of 

 the world, was developed by the same slow process of evolution 

 from the rudest beginnings. 



It is true that men learned in Egyptology had discouraged 

 the idea of an earlier stone age in Egypt, and that among these 

 were Lepsius and Brugsch; but these men were not trained 

 in prehistoric archaeology; their devotion to the study of the 

 monuments of Egyptian civilization had evidently drawn them 

 away from sympathy, and indeed from acquaintance with the 

 work of men like Boucher de Perthes, Lartet, Mlsson, Troyon, 

 and Dawkins. But a new era was beginning : in 1807 Worsaae 

 called attention to the prehistoric implements found on the bor- 

 ders of Egypt ; two years later Arcelin discussed such stone im- 

 plements found beneath the soil of Sakkara and Ghizeh, the 

 very focus of the earliest Egyptian civilization ; in the same year 

 Hamy and Lenormant found such implements washed out from 



