72 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



a divergence, to use Professor Huxley's words, 

 " immeasurable — practically infinite." 



It needs only to be added to this sketch, 

 that such as Man now is, Man, so far as we 

 yet know, has always been. Two skeletons 

 at least have been found respecting which 

 there is strong ground for believing that they 

 belong to the very earliest human race which 

 lived in Northern Europe. I defer any refer- 

 ence to the probable epoch of time when 

 those skeletons were clothed with flesh and 

 blood. This belongs to the next division of 

 our subject, which is the Antiquity as 

 distinguished from the Origin of Man. 

 Suffice it here to say that although one of 

 those skeletons indicates a coarse, perhaps 

 even what we should call — as we might fairly 



