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of modern philosophy and of antiquarian research. 

 It presents to us a coarse and filthy savage, repulsive 

 in feature, gross in habits, warring with his fellow - 

 savages, and warring yet more remorselessly with 

 every living thing he could destroy, tearing half- 

 cooked flesh, and cracking marrow-bones with stone 

 hammers, sheltering himself in damp and smoky 

 caves, with no eye heavenward, and with only the 

 first rude beginnings of the most important arts of 

 life. 



Both pictures may contain elements of truth, for 

 man is a many-sided monster, made up of things 

 apparently incongruous, and presenting here and 

 there features out of which either . picture may be 

 composed. Evolutionists, and especially those who 

 believe in the struggle for existence and natural 

 selection, ignore altogether the evidence of the golden 

 age of humanity, and refer us to the rudest of modern 

 savages as the types of primitive man. Those who 

 believe in a Divine origin for our race, perhaps dwell 

 too much on the higher spiritual features of the 

 Edenic state, to the exclusion of its more practical 

 aspects, and its relations to the condition of the more 

 barbarous races. Let us examine more closely both 

 representations ; and first, that of creation. 



The Glacial period, with its snows and ice, had 

 passed away, and the world rejoiced in a spring-time 

 of renewed verdure and beauty. Many great and 

 formidable beasts of the Tertiary time had disap- 

 peared in the revolutions which had occurred, and 



