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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  Human 
  Being 
  yet 
  known 
  was 
  born, 
  that 
  

   Professor 
  Huxley 
  pronounces 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  clearly 
  

   indicated 
  "that 
  the 
  first 
  traces 
  of 
  the 
  

   primordial 
  stock 
  whence 
  Man 
  has 
  proceeded 
  

   need 
  no 
  longer 
  be 
  sought, 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  

   entertain 
  any 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  doctrine 
  of 
  

   progressive 
  development, 
  in 
  the 
  newest 
  ter- 
  

   tiaries," 
  — 
  (that 
  is, 
  in 
  the 
  oldest 
  deposit 
  yet 
  

   known 
  to 
  contain 
  human 
  remains 
  at 
  all) 
  

   " 
  But," 
  he 
  adds, 
  " 
  they 
  may 
  be 
  looked 
  for 
  in 
  

   an 
  epoch 
  more 
  distant 
  from 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  those 
  

   tertiaries 
  than 
  that 
  is 
  from 
  us."* 
  So 
  far, 
  

   therefore, 
  the 
  evidence 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   originality 
  of 
  Man 
  as 
  a 
  species, 
  nay, 
  even 
  

   as 
  a 
  Class 
  by 
  himself, 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  gulf 
  

   practically 
  immeasurable 
  from 
  all 
  the 
  crea- 
  

  

  * 
  Lyell, 
  "Antiquity 
  of 
  Man," 
  p. 
  89. 
  

  

  