APPENDIX 



To absolutely fix a time or date for any of these days or age 

 I have herein reviewed would be an impracticable undertaking. 

 For they each appear to go through nine stages subdivided 

 into sections of three periods, during which three distinct 

 results are produced by each of these twenty-one major divi- 

 sions of evolution past or to come. The number of evolutions 

 at work appears to vary from i to 10, and the most that can 

 be said at any time is, that one evolution has a more marked 

 preponderance of influence over the united action of whatever 

 number may be at work than is exerted by the other forces 

 or energies that combine to produce the united results. Hence 

 it follows that any attempt to give them anything like a 

 chronological position must be of a very approximate nature. 



Besides, the herditary forces that tend to make re- 

 productive activities systematic, are frequently upset by the 

 variation in the lengths and rapidity of their evolution ; by 

 effects produced by climate, environment, and migratory influ- 

 ences, which greatly vary in different parts of the globe both 

 the commencement and final completion of any evolution in 

 any one particular locality. Hence we find that the chrono- 

 logical periods of evolution vary in like manner, so in estimat- 

 ing time we can only make a guess at the period from an 

 average start to an average finish. For example, the evolution 

 of man is conducted on the same lines and subject to the same 

 laws as other species, yet the results so far as time and extreme 

 variation are concerned are greatly varied as to their relative 

 start and conclusion in various parts of the world. 



The evolution of the human race has progressed at a 

 vast variation both in time, quality and rapidity, when you 

 compare its progress in China with different parts of Europe 

 and Australia. Again, the revolution of Cromwell coincides, 

 so far as political results are concerned, with the French 

 revolution of Robespierre. The foundation of the Prussian 

 Empire coincides with the Norman Conquest in the evolutions 



