120 K. HOYSHE WALKEY^ ESQ., ON 



does it accord with what we knoAv of Paleeohthic man. The 

 excavations of archasologists in Palestine and India display 

 just the same sudden commencement of the human race as 

 do those of Europe and America. Man is connected Avith 

 the same fauna, and no trace of any evolution is visible. 

 We know that during the first stone age man spread 

 throughout Europe, Asia, America, and possibly even to the 

 islands of the Pacific ; which knowledge points, not only to 

 this having been a long period, but to its having sufi'ered no 

 great geological changes, and this is amply proved to have 

 been the case by other facts. Therefore it is not likely that 

 " Lemuria " would have been submerged until the break 

 between the Palseolithic and Neohthic ages. 



Now from what we learn of the earliest races of men we 

 find them to have been great and successful hunters, flesh 

 eatei-s, and wanderers all over the earth ; and we may fairly 

 demand the same habits, though allowably less developed, 

 from his prototype : therefore we cannot suppose the 

 prototype to have been confined entirely to Lemuria. If 

 Palasolithic man reached so far as North America, and 

 throughout his wanderings was a carnivorous animal, with a 

 knowledge of drawing, of making ornaments, and efiicient 

 weapons, &c., so according to the laws of evolution, must 

 his prototype have spread over a considerable area (at least 

 as far as India, Palestine, and Southern Europe), so must he 

 have been, at any rate, partially carnivorous, and so should he 

 have had implements. Thus, in these countries, vv^e have a 

 fair right to demand traces of our semi-simian ancestors ; 

 even should we allow Lemuria to have ever existed outside 

 the brains of evolutionary theorists. But no such a type, 

 that has stood the test of scientific analysis has ever been 

 discovered, though sometimes attempts have been made to 

 bring forward one ; as for instance the famous Neanderthal 

 skull. AH the labours of archeeologists throughout the world 

 have failed to substantiate any sign of our great progenitor. 

 The actual proof or disproof of Lemuria I must leave lo 

 geologists ; but I have endeavoured to show that though 

 its disproof would strengthen the hands of the believers in a 

 special creation, yet its existence is not either fatal to them 

 or sufficient to account for the total absence of any trace of 

 semi-developed man in those parts of the world where wo 

 have a right to demand them, and that our right to demand 

 them is justifiable on strictly logical, scientific grounds. 

 This then is the answer to the first half of the question as it 



