500 HALLAM ON MAN's PLACE CHAP. xxiv. 



procured from a deposit of corresponding age at Eppelsheim 

 near Darmstadt, in a latitude answering to that of the south- 

 ern counties of England.* But according to the doctrine of 

 progression it is not in these miocene strata, but in those of 

 jDliocene and post-pliocene date, in more equatorial regions, 

 that there will be the greatest chance of discovering here- 

 after some species more highly organized than the gorilla 

 and chimpanzee. 



The only reputed fossil monkey of eocene date, namely, that 

 found in 1840 at Kyson, in Suffolk, and so determined by Pro- 

 fessor Owen, has recently been pronounced by the same ana- 

 tomist, after re-examination, and when he had ampler mate- 

 rials at his command, to be a pachj^derm. 



M. Eiitimeyer,! however, an able osteologist, referred to in 

 the earlier chapters of this w^ork, has just announced the dis- 

 coveiy 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 Goenopithecus lemuroides to take rank as one of the 

 Primates. 



Hallam on Man's 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 Avere to pause, even shortly, to inquire whether, 

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

 remain the most inscrutable of mysteries, we might not be 



•■■■ Owen, " Geologist," November. f Riitimeyer, " Eocene Saugethierc," 



1862. &c. Zurich, 1862. 



