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I. IXTRODUCTIOX. 



It has been established be^^ond all question that man 

 was contemporary with the mammoth and the mastodon. 

 The first discoveries proving this fact were either wholly 

 discredited or attempts made to explain away the facts. 

 At the present time it is universally admitted. That man 

 came into existence at the same time with the mastodon is 

 disputed by some and admitted by others. Every import- 

 ant fact revealed by science has met with stubborn resist- 

 ance. Its history was well illustrated by Professor Agas- 

 siz: "Whenever a new and startling fact is brought to 

 light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 

 ' it is contrary to religion,' and, lastly, ' that every body 

 knew it before.' " There are a particular few who have 

 constituted themselves the peculiar custodians of the Bible. 

 Their views alone are correct, and in order to harmonize 

 the Bible and science, the former is made to speak the lan- 

 guage of the latter, while science, in its turn, is misrepresent- 

 ed and distorted in order to meet the supposed requirements 

 of the former. The discoveries which give to man a great 

 antiquity are wrested from their true place, and are not 

 given the same credit or due weight as is allowed the fossil 



