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proofs of transformation of other species; the more (if 
they existed in the strata of the same earth) traces also of 
transitional Man ought to be found: but there are none; 
the link is confessedly still missing. 
At the Munich Conference, in 1877, when Hiackel, of 
Sena, propounded his theory of Man’s descent, Virchow, 
of Berlin, the great Pathologist, rebuked him for teaching 
that, as proved, which, at best, was possible, and declared 
connection between Monkey, and Man; to say nothing 
of that between Crab, and Man; was unintelligible to 
Zoology ; nor could be taught as established truth. 
Very many of the theories represented by Scientists 
as settled facts, have one after the other been discarded 
by Philosophers of equal research. The almost infinite 
antiquity of this Globe which is found necessary to im- 
press upon the student, to make room for the Evolution 
of Man, and the other creatures his cotemporaries, from 
the date when all were in protoplasm, to the date of the 
Cretaceous and even Jurassic periods, when the Mammalia 
appear already perfectly developed: to the date of the 
Tertiary period, when Man first appears; appears in the 
perfect development which he still retains: periods them- 
selves of tremendous antiquity. This antiquity, vast 
without doubt; is yet considered by many Scientific men 
to have been greatly exaggerated. 
This exaggeration, Professor Thompson, of Glasgow, 
holds to be incompatible with his calculations founded 
upon certain solar conditions, affecting the probable age 
of our Globe: and Professor Haughton holds his views to 
be correct. And Professor Phillips, of Oxford, himself 
doubts the value of the enormous drafts upon the bank 
of Time which the Scientists find themselves compelled 
to draw to make room for their notions. 
If man have, since the remote Tertiary period, made 
