126 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



It is not a boundless ocean, it is only a very 

 broad sea. On the other side of it there rise 

 the mountains of a Lifeless Land. Successive 

 creations mark the distance between us and 

 them, and although we cannot say what that 

 distance is, we can say that it is a finite 

 distance — that beyond a boundary which we 

 can see, the world was not a world such 

 as we now live in, but a world com- 

 paratively "without form and void." The 

 question of Man's Antiquity involves no 

 attempt to measure the breadth of this great 

 space, but only the breadth of a little bay or 

 creek, close to the shores on which we are 

 now standing. Be this breadth greater or 

 smaller by one, two, or three, or four, or five, 

 or ten thousand years, its relative place in the 



