500 HALLAM ON MAN'S PLACE CHAP. xxiv. 



a deposit of corresponding age at Eppelsheim near Darmstadt, 

 in a latitude answering to that of the southern counties of 

 England.* But according to the doctrine of progression it 

 is not in these miocene strata, but in those of pliocene and 

 post-pliocene date, in more equatorial regions, that there 

 will be the greatest chance of discovering hereafter some 

 species more highly organised than the gorilla and chim 

 panzee. 



The only reputed fossil monkey of eocene date, namely, 

 that found in 1840 at Kyson, in Suffolk, and so determined 

 by Professor Owen, has recently been pronounced by the 

 same anatomist, after reexamination, and when he had ampler 

 materials at his command, to be a pachyderm. 



M. Riitimeyer,f however, an able osteologist, referred to in 

 the earlier chapters of this work, has just announced the dis 

 covery in eocene strata, in the Swiss Jura, of a monkey allied 

 to the lemurs, but as he has only obtained as yet a small 

 fragment of a jaw with three molar teeth, we must wait 

 for fuller information before we confidently rely on the 

 claims of his Ccenopithecus lemuroides to take rank as one 

 of the Primates. 



Hallam on Marts place in the Creation. 



Hallam, in his ' Literature of Europe,' after indulging in 

 some profound reflections on 'the thoughts of Pascal,' and 

 the theological dogmas of his school respecting the fallen 

 nature of Man, thus speaks of Man's place in the creation : 

 'It might be wandering from the proper subject of these 

 volumes if we were to pause, even shortly, to inquire whether, 

 while the creation of a world so full of evil must ever 

 remain the most inscrutable of mysteries, we might not be 



* Owen, ' Geologist,' November f Rutimeyer, 'Eocene Saugethiere/ 

 1862. &c. Zurich, 1862. 



