THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



us into a warmer climate instead of a colder one. 

 In the middle of this period we meet with that 

 very picture which I drew in the beginning. Eu- 

 rope then had the giraffe plains and the primeval 

 forests of the present day inhabited by anthro- 

 poid apes, and there is no longer any doubt that 

 the oldest tools of man, which we can distinguish 

 as such, lead us even to the limit of this very 

 hot, middle period of the Tertiary age. Man is 

 even then a part of that picture ! He is himself 

 almost a million years old on the surface of 

 this globe, and had simple stone weapons and 

 other tools which he used in his fight with the 

 giant animals of that time. In other words, 

 he possessed the indubitable beginnings of civ- 

 ilization. 



It seems to me that we cannot trace matters 

 up to this point without confronting this further 

 question: Is it not possible that man may be 

 still older? 



With this venerable age of one million years 

 he is a part of the wonders of the primitive 

 world, he drifts into the company of still stranger 

 animals than the mammoth, into other climates 

 than those of present-day Europe, the Alps of 

 which were then in the first stage of formation 

 and the seas of which had not yet found their 



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