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Huxley : "The melancholy fact remains ; the position taken 

 up is hopelesslv untenable ; it is raked alike by the old-fash- 

 ioned artillery of the churches, and by the weapons of pre- 

 cision with which the advancing forces of science are armed." 

 In a note the learned author refers (and evidently with ap- 

 proval; to Southall's "Recent Origin of the World," published 

 in 1875. Nothing could be more damaging for his theory 

 than calling: attention to a work so completely refuted and 

 universally ridiculed both by xA^nthropologist, Archaeologist, 

 and Geologist. The gentleman in question contended that 

 the stone and flint implements found in various localities 

 clearly proved that mankind once highly civilized had degen- 

 tdrated. Look, for instance, to Egypt ; it had no Stone Age, 

 its people were born civilized." Was it not most interesting to 

 the Traditionalists to find in this faithless age such facts from 

 so authoritative a source ? We express no little sympathy with 

 them in their bitter disappointment, when the discoveries of 

 Dr. Reil at Cairo, Jukes Brown, etc., settled that matter, when 

 Prof. Havnes, of Boston, U.S.A., brought home from thence 

 scores of the very articles declared to be non-existent ; the 

 cores of the flints and account of the workshops where they 

 were manufactured. Some were from Luxor fthe ancient 

 Thebes), where French Explorers recently discovered the 

 burial place of the deified Osiris and his Consort, "Isis," de- 

 posited there 8,000 years ago. But the final proof which set- 

 tled the question entirely. Dr. A. D. White remarks, came, 

 when General Pitt Rivers, a "Fellow of the Royal Society," 

 ■'President of the Anthropological," and J. F. Campbell, 

 F.C.S., England, ^ound implements in alluvial deposits at 

 Djbel Assas, near Thebes, but others, chipped flint in the hard 

 stratified sfravel from 6 to 10 feet below the surface, relics evi- 

 dently older, remarks the latter than the oldest Egyptian tem- 

 ples and tombs. Thus ended the contention of Mr. Southall." 

 The Doctor has been equally unfortunate in referring to 

 the views of the Duke of Argyle regarding "the Antiquity of 

 ]\Ian." Is he not aware that His Grace "was forced to admit 

 the proofs of his opponents were so convincing that he was 



