4<D Darwinism and Deity. 



lived in southern France when the reindeer and the 

 hairy elephant abounded there, attained not only me- 

 chanical skill, but considerable artistic power in carving. 

 The skeletons found in the cave of Engis show that 

 man, just as we see him now, with well-developed skull 

 of the present type, existed in the post-pliocene periods. 

 Indications of man, flint implements made by him, have 

 indeed been found dating back to the still earlier period 

 when the tropical elephant roamed in France. Lyell, 

 speaking of changes in physical geography since those 

 skeletons were washed into the cave of Engis, says, " But 

 although we may be unable to estimate the minimum 

 required for the changes in physical geography above 

 alluded to, we can not fail to perceive that the duration 

 of the period (the post-pliocene) must have been very 

 protracted, and that other ages of comparative inaction 

 may have followed, separating the post-pliocene from 

 the historical periods, and constituting an interval no 

 less indefinite in its duration." 



Then if man, the final product, existed fully devel- 

 oped, as we see him now, so early, and we are still un- 

 able to estimate the duration required by Darwin's law, 

 to produce even the slightest change of species, it may 

 be that the development from a mollusk up to man, in 

 accordance with Darwin's law, would demand even 

 greater duration than the dizzy cycles allowed by geol- 

 ogy for the formation of all the earth's crust. 



While men of science are interested in investigating 

 and ferreting out the truths of nature, the world at 

 large are more concerned in the consequences of the 

 researches than in the researches themselves. More 

 people care for an accurate prediction of the weather, 



