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and flint knives and bone-skewers, of much the same pat- 

 tern as those fabricated by the lowest savages at the pres- 

 ent day, and that we have every reason to believe the 

 habits and modes of living of such people to have re- 

 mained the same from the time of the Mammoth and the 

 tichorhine Ehinoceros till now, I do not know that this 

 result is other than might be expected. 



Where, then, must we look for primaeval Man ? "Was 

 the oldest Homo sapiens pliocene or miocene, or yet more 

 ancient ? In still older strata do the fossilized bones of an 

 Ape more anthropoid, or a Man more pithecoid, than any 

 yet known await the researches of some unborn paleon- 

 tologist ? 



Time will show. But, in the meanwhile, if any form 

 of the doctrine of progressive development is correct, we 

 must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that 

 has yet been made of the antiquity of Man. 



THE END. 



