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much service was obtained from them as was possible. Nor 

 is it to be supposed that all the discoveries have been 

 made that will be, for every hiding place has not yet been 

 uncovered. Then again these relics not infrequently fall 

 into the hands of the ignorant and unappreciative, and 

 hence their value is lost to science. 



II. MIOCENE EPOCH. 



If in the end geologists should fail to prove that man 

 existed in the Miocene, still there is enough evidence, to 

 show that he was not only coeval with, but outlived such 

 gigantic mammals as the Megatherium, Mammoth, Masto- 

 don, Siberian Pthinoceros (E. tichorr/iinus) , Cave Bear, Cave 

 Lion, Irish Elk, a gigantic ox (Bos 'primi genius) , and others. 

 All these animals he assisted in destroying, and some 

 of them passed away before his attacks. But why may not 

 man have lived during the Miocene, and thus have been the 

 contemporary of other gigantic fauna? As previously re- 

 marked there is a class who strenuously oppose this idea. 

 It is particularly that class which believes that this world 

 was made especially for the benefit of man. If the Creator 

 made this world especially for man, then there was one 

 period particularly adapted to man's wants. The world 

 never experienced a more beautiful period. That period 

 was the Miocene, and by all manner of logical reasoning 

 it was the time when man should have appeared. Dr. 

 Garrigou has forcibly remarked, " From the moment when 

 mammals of so perfect an organization as the mastodons, 

 lions, hyenas, and stags could live in the Miocene air, and 

 adapt themselves to a climate which their presence indi- 

 cates to have been healthy, from the moment in which M. 

 Lartet has shown us an ape co-existing and developing 

 along with these mammals, why should not man have lived 

 as their contemporary?'' There is then no reason why 

 man should not have existed at this time ; the climate was 



