THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



through which human beings have passed merely 

 in a period of one thousand years. Here, we 

 are supposed to place side by side thousands of 

 thousands of years. What wonder then if the 

 mirror of research transports us back to those 

 primeval times into a different Europe, composed 

 of different seas, countries, mountains and cli- 

 mates. 



It is the so called "Tertiary Period" into 

 which we have looked. 



Four great periods are distinguished by the 

 historians of the earth, in speaking of the change 

 and succession of animal and plant life as it is 

 discovered in the course of the many million 

 years during which it has developed. We may 

 use the simple Latin numbers to designate these 

 periods: Primus, the First, Secundus, the Sec- 

 ond, Tertius, the Third, Quartus, the Fourth. 

 There is the Primary period, the very first in 

 which we discover traces of living beings on our 

 earth. It was then that the forests were green, 

 the fossil remains of which we now know as 

 coal. Strange and uncouth newts/crawled about 

 in their shade. The sea, the shores of which 

 were covered by these trees, was alive with long 

 forgotten crustaceans^and fishes. Then followed 

 the Secondary period, in which the terrible giant 





