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sented the enrichments and emendations which a number 

 of devout scholars and thinkers were endeavoring to 

 make in the Prayer-book of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States, and he spoke with enthusi 

 asm of these additions, which, alas ! have never yet been 

 adopted. 



Next came a visit to Torquay, where Kent s Cavern, 

 with its prehistoric relics, interested me vastly. Look 

 ing at them, there could be no particle of doubt regard 

 ing the enormous antiquity of the human race. There 

 were to be seen the evidences of man s existence scattered 

 among the remains of animals long ago extinct animals 

 which must have lived before geological changes which 

 took place ages on ages ago. Mixed with remains of fire 

 and human implements and human bones were to be seen 

 not only bones of the hairy mammoth and cave-bear, 

 woolly rhinoceros and reindeer, which could have been 

 deposited there only in a time of arctic cold, but bones of 

 the hyena, hippopotamus, saber-toothed tiger, and the 

 like, which could have been deposited only when the 

 climate was torrid. The conjunction of these remains 

 clearly showed that man had lived in England early 

 enough and long enough to pass through times of arctic 

 cold, and times of torrid heat ; times when great glaciers 

 stretched far down into England and, indeed, into the 

 Continent, and times when England had a land connection 

 with the European continent, and the European continent 

 with Africa, allowing tropical animals to migrate freely 

 from Africa to the middle regions of England. 



The change wrought by such discoveries as these, not 

 only in England, but in Belgium, France, and elsewhere, 

 as regards our knowledge of the antiquity of the human 

 race and the character of the creation process, is one of 

 the great things of our epoch. 1 



Thence we visited various cathedral towns, being 

 shown delightful hospitality everywhere. There re- 



1 1 have discussed this more fully in my &quot; History of the Warfare 

 of Science with Theology,&quot; Vol. I, chap. vi. 



