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clerical brethren regarding that point. Heaven knows 

 Ontario possesses more than we w-ant of " Sham Parsons" 

 or medical quacks without importing a fresh supply of 

 either from the United States. 



One of the speakers at the meeting is reported 

 to have stated: "At the present day we are face 

 to face with one of the most interesting and suggestive facts 

 in the whole field of historic-scientific investigation,' 

 namely, that no creature that wore the human form liad an 

 existence on the earth earlier than from six to twelve 

 thousand years ago." 



When the learned gentleman made such an assertion, 

 he betrayed his unbelief in what has been incorporated in 

 the authorized version of the English Bible of King James. 

 True, perhaps, to compromise matters with the Geologists, 

 he adds a paltry six thousand years to Archbishop Usher's 

 calculation regarding the date of the Creation, but he 

 appears to be as ignorant of recent discoveries as other rev- 

 erend gentlemen who addressed the meeting. Has he 

 heard of the human skeleton now in the British Museum 

 lately found in Egypt, interred eight or ten thousand years 

 ago, with the stone implements he used in life lying beside 

 him ; of the scores of flint arrowheads, celts, etc., obtained 

 by the English general, Rivers^ and American Antiquarians, 

 from the same country, antedating the time when Egypt was 

 possessed by a more civilized people? Has the learned gentle- 

 man heard of the recent discoveries in the caves of France 

 and Germany, of the human remains found there, when 

 Africa and Europe were joined by land ? Or has he learned 

 anything respecting the Mediterranean elevated Pliocene 

 sea beds, which the famous Italian Astronomer, Secchi, in- 

 forms us contained in an undisturbed bed the bones of an 

 entire family drowned at sea, apparently? 



No doubt the reader may remark an attempt on the 

 part of the Bible I^eague at Toronto to re-open a question 

 which the author of The Warfare of Science considered 

 settled long since. 



