PREFACE. 



THERE is no doubt that a great diversity 

 of opinion respecting the doctrine of Evolu- 

 tion has been entertained by many eminent 

 men for many ages. The Book of Job 

 which is probably the oldest book in the 

 world, or as old as the Prisse papyrus in 

 the Louvre, which claims an antiquity of 

 4000 years may be dated about 2000 B.C. 

 from the internal evidence, which speaks 

 of the Pyramids (rendered in our English 

 Bible as " desolate places," Job iii. 14) as 

 the burial places of kings ; and Egyptology 

 teaches us that the practice of utilising 

 Pyramids in that way ended with the sixth 

 dynasty, which terminated some time 

 before Abraham went down to Egypt. 

 According to some Job is supposed to speak 

 of one of our ancestors of the quadrupedal 

 order when he says, " Vain man would be 



