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literature, whether it professes to record events, 

 or does no more than allude to them in 

 poetry and song. Then comes Archaeology, 

 the evidence of Human Monuments, belonging 

 to times or races whose voice, though not 

 silenced, has become inarticulate to us. 

 Piecing on to this evidence, comes that 

 which Geology has recently afforded from 

 human remains associated with the latest 

 physical changes on the surface and in the 

 climates of the globe. Then comes the evi- 

 dence of Language, founded on the facts of 

 Human Speech, and the laws which regulate 

 its development and growth. And lastly, 

 there is the evidence afforded by the existing 

 physical structure, and the existing geogra- 

 phical distribution of the various Races of 



