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cance as tending to show that the religious consciousness, 

 universal in our day, was also an endowment of the earliest 

 and most uninstructed type of man. 



The man of the Stone Age was not, therefore, as some 

 have asserted, a sort of perfected monkey. He had the 

 structure of a man ; without doubt, he was capable of 

 speech ; he supplied his wants with a kind of skill which 

 became improved and educated by experience a charac 

 teristic only of intelligence ; he admired beauty ; he mani 

 fested a perception of the ideal ; his thoughts strayed for 

 ward into another world, and, with his other religious sen 

 timents, he undoubtedly felt a vague, strange sense of a 

 superintending Intelligence and a moral Governor. 



Does the unwritten history of this race reach back to an 

 antiquity incompatible with prevalent views upon the age 

 of man ? Here, as elsewhere, the enemies of Revelation 

 have sought materials for the use of unbelievers. They 

 have sought in vain. There is more in the history of pri 

 meval man that confirms our Scriptures than there is of 

 conflict with them. We have popularly held the race to 

 be about six thousand years old ; but our researches show 

 that man lived with the bear, hyena, mammoth, and other 

 animals now extinct, and some of which became extinct on 

 the decline of the glacial epoch. It is not claimed that 

 man lived before the glacial epoch, and the evidences of 

 his contemporaneous existence with the reign of ice have 

 been shown to be fallacious. The remains of man reputed 

 to have been found in glacial drift of the valley of the 

 Somme are in truth buried in deposits of much later date, 

 as has been shown by Dr. Andrews, of Chicago, as well as 

 by others.* Man had no place till after the reign of ice 



* For an elaborate and accessible paper on the &quot;Amiens gravel, &quot;by 

 Alfred Tylor, see Amer. Journ. of Science and Art [2], Nov., 1868, cited 

 from the Quart. Jour, of the Geolog. Society of London for May, 1867. 



