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piece to Southall's volume], in Europe, appeared abruptly on 

 the scene a few thousand years ago ten, if you choose. 1 * 



There have been many new discoveries since 

 these lines were written, but they rather serve to 

 confirm the ultimate conclusion, unless we pre- 

 suppose materialistic evolution. That 10,000 

 years are actually sufficient to account for the 

 whole history of man, from his first appearance 

 to the present day, is a statement which can be 

 supported by the best scientific evidence and the 

 highest specialized scientific authority. 



Endless cycles of centuries, as we have said, are 

 of course required by materialistic evolutionists 

 to account for the slow process of development 

 from brute to man which this requires. Hence ge- 

 ologists, willing enough without further provoca- 

 tion to deal in large figures, were called upon to 

 adapt themselves still more to the preconceived 

 theories with which materialistic anthropologists 

 insisted that science must be squared. Yet in spite 

 of every attempt at conciliation vast discrepancies 

 remained between the conclusions of these two 

 classes. Science, in brief, has been cast to the 

 winds to secure at all costs the verification of the 

 utterly hopeless and entirely arbitrary theories of 

 materialistic evolution. 



In his article on Biblical chronology in the 



M "The Recent Origin of Man, as illustrated by Geology 

 and the Modern Science of Prehistoric Archaeology," Lippincot 

 & Co., 1875. Preface. 



