﻿VARIETY 
  OF 
  THE 
  EVIDENCE. 
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  literature, 
  whether 
  it 
  professes 
  to 
  record 
  events, 
  

   or 
  does 
  no 
  more 
  than 
  allude 
  to 
  them 
  in 
  

   poetry 
  and 
  song. 
  Then 
  comes 
  Archaeology, 
  

   the 
  evidence 
  of 
  Human 
  Monuments, 
  belonging 
  

   to 
  times 
  or 
  races 
  whose 
  voice, 
  though 
  not 
  

   silenced, 
  has 
  become 
  inarticulate 
  to 
  us. 
  

   Piecing 
  on 
  to 
  this 
  evidence, 
  comes 
  that 
  

   which 
  Geology 
  has 
  recently 
  afforded 
  from 
  

   human 
  remains 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  latest 
  

   physical 
  changes 
  on 
  the 
  surface 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   climates 
  of 
  the 
  globe. 
  Then 
  comes 
  the 
  evi- 
  

   dence 
  of 
  Language, 
  founded 
  on 
  the 
  facts 
  of 
  

   Human 
  Speech, 
  and 
  the 
  laws 
  which 
  regulate 
  

   its 
  development 
  and 
  growth. 
  And 
  lastly, 
  

   there 
  is 
  the 
  evidence 
  afforded 
  by 
  the 
  existing 
  

   physical 
  structure, 
  and 
  the 
  existing 
  geogra- 
  

   phical 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  Races 
  of 
  

  

  