74 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



Human Being yet known was born, that 

 Professor Huxley pronounces it to be clearly 

 indicated " that the first traces of the 

 primordial stock whence Man has proceeded 

 need no longer be sought, by those who 

 entertain any form of the doctrine of 

 progressive development, in the newest ter- 

 tiaries," — (that is, in the oldest deposit yet 

 known to contain human remains at all.) 

 "■ But," he adds, " they may be looked for in 

 an epoch more distant from the age of those 

 tertiaries than that is from us."* So far, 

 therefore, the evidence is on the side of the 

 originality of Man as a species, nay, even 

 as a Class by himself, separated by a gulf 

 practically immeasurable from all the crea- 



* Lyell, "Antiquity of Man," p. 89. 



