MACHAIRODUS. 183 
it is hardly conceivable that Man, in an early and rude 
condition of society, could have resisted the attacks of the 
more formidable Tiger, Bear, and Machairodus of the cave 
epoch. And this consideration may lead us the more 
readily to receive the negative evidence of the absence of 
wel-authenticated human fossil remains, and to conclude 
that Man did not exist in the land which was ravaged 
simultaneously by three such formidable Carnivora, aided 
in their work of destruction by troops of savage Hyzenas. 
