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the modification of which he has probably become what 

 he is. And considering what is now known of the 

 most ancient races of men ; seeing that they fashioned 

 flint axes, and flint knives, and bone skewers of much 

 the same pattern as those fabricated by the lowest 

 savages at the present day, and that we have every 

 reason to believe the habits and modes of living of 

 such people to have remained the same from the time 

 of the mammoth and the tichorhine rhinoceros till now, 

 I do not know that the result is other than might be 

 expected." ] 



I have seen no reason to change the opinion here 

 expressed, and so far from the fact being in the slightest 

 degree opposed to a belief in the evolution of man, 

 all that has been learned of late years respecting 

 the relation of the Eecent and Quaternary to the Ter- 

 tiary mammalia appears to me to be in striking har- 

 mony with what we know respecting Quaternary man, 

 supposing man to have followed the general law of 

 evolution. 



The only other collateral question of importance raised 

 by Professor Yirchow is, whether the doctrine of evolu- 

 tion should be generally taught in schools or not. Now 

 I cannot find that Professor Yirchow anywhere dis- 

 tinctly repudiates the doctrine ; all that he distinctly 

 says is that it is not proven, and that things which 



1 Man's Place in Nature, p. 159. 



