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impossible for the race as it is for the iadividual to 

 trace itself back to its origin; that we can only 

 arrive at a notion of man's antiquity by iaductive 

 reasoning from the evolution of nationalities, the 

 growth of language, and the progress of civilisation ; 

 and that this induction for all prehistoric time must 

 be founded exclusively on the discoveries of geology. 



6. That, Geologically, there is the amplest evidence 

 of man having been an inhabitant of Western Europe 

 for ages preceding the popularly-received chronology ; 

 that man's occupation of Europe does not fix the 

 measure of his antiquity in Northern Africa and Asia, 

 to which everything points as the region from which 

 the races of Europe were descended ; that the dis- 

 covery of prehistoric remains in Asia could not be 

 received as the earliest of indications of the human 

 race, but that geology must seek for the earliest 

 traces of man in the regions that are now occupied 

 by the lowest varieties — thus implying an antiquity 

 for the human species that cannot be expressed in 

 years and centuries, but only relatively to other 

 geological events. 



7. That, Genetically man must deal with his origin 

 as he deals with his other natural-history relations ; 

 that as he is inseparably associated with the great 

 scheme of life, so he must apply to his own species 

 whatever genetic process he may seek to apply to his 



