40 Prehistoric Races. 



tribes; or they are natural, as heat, light, actinism, 

 moisture, atmospheric contamination, drink, food, 

 resources, scenery, degree of natural security, con- 

 sanguineous marriages, sickness, and the like. 



It would appear that a great many elements were 

 necessary to conclude a logical argument here. In 

 the absence of the argument, what becomes of our 

 poor savage species, the ape-man, who yet must 

 be found somewhere, if evolution is to hold its 

 ground ? 



38. There is one resource left. If the diluvial man 



of quaternary times is nowhere at the service of 



evolution, perhaps a tertiary man of 



r iary an. ^ e i[ mes gone before would be so, if 

 only he could be found. To the satisfaction of a 

 goodly number of scientists, French, German and 

 others, such a prehistoric being of the tertiary age, 

 both pliocene and eocene, has been found, and that 

 several times over. Not that he himself has quite 

 shown himself. His friends admit that. But he is 

 hypothetical in other things, which certainly have 

 been found. To find himself then is only a ques- 

 tion of time, when a future day will reveal him; 

 and faith in the vindication of science is long-suf- 

 fering enough to await that day in patience. The 

 things, in which the tertiary man has betrayed him- 

 self, are flint-chips, and flints burnt, and irregular 

 incisions made in the bones of animals, all of which 

 are found in tertiary formations, and belong to ter- 

 tiary times, and therefore — reveal a tertiary man. 





