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tion. Yet the said Asiatic is quite like the rest of 

 us. Nor are we, by implication, very much in a 

 state of barbarism, because we live contemporane- 

 ously with the stone age of Mount Roraima, 1888. 

 And, in general, most nations have been found to 

 use stone in the course of their history, the Israel- 

 ites, Egyptians, Romans, the Indians, the Germans, 

 the Lombards and Anglo-Saxons. Wherefore, the 

 archaeological ages of stone and metal seem to have 

 been only relative, partial, local. Relative, too, and 

 partial, is the antiquity which they indicate. And 

 if there is any evolution in the question, it is only 

 that of the sequence of stages in some nation's local 

 development. 



To despatch all the literature pertaining to dilu- 

 vial man, we need add but little more. He has, 

 indeed, played a conspicuous part in the hypothesis 

 of evolution; and he still figures prominently in 

 magazines and reviews for the entertainment of 

 cultured classes, as also in the preliminary notions 

 of children's text-books of history. * We ought not, 

 then, to close our obituary notice of him, without 

 satisfying the reasonable curiosity of future genera- 

 tions. We shall just briefly look into the two re- 

 maining chapters of his record. And as, upon his 

 withdrawal, his place was boldly aspired to by what is 

 called the tertiary man, we shall say a word upon 

 him also. The two chapters to which we refer are 

 the palaeontology and the anthropology of the di- 

 luvial or quaternary man, 



