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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  themselves 
  to 
  new 
  scenes 
  and 
  new 
  necessities. 
  

   In 
  like 
  manner, 
  of 
  the 
  evidence 
  from 
  Geology 
  

   it 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  that 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  how 
  

   rapidly 
  changes 
  of 
  climate 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  

   effected 
  if 
  the 
  agencies 
  which 
  determine 
  the 
  

   distribution 
  of 
  Sea 
  and 
  Land 
  were 
  more 
  

   active 
  than 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  historic 
  times. 
  

   All 
  these 
  are 
  pleas 
  in 
  mitigation 
  of 
  extreme 
  

   demands 
  in 
  point 
  of 
  time, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  pleas 
  

   which 
  may 
  be 
  fairly 
  urged. 
  But 
  when 
  all 
  

   due 
  allowance 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  for 
  the 
  consid- 
  

   erations 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  point, 
  there 
  remains 
  a 
  

   weight 
  and 
  concurrence 
  of 
  authority 
  in 
  favour 
  

   of 
  a 
  long 
  chronology 
  which 
  grows 
  and 
  in- 
  

   creases 
  in 
  the 
  minds 
  of 
  all 
  who 
  have 
  studied 
  

   each 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  separate 
  branches 
  of 
  inquiry. 
  

   For 
  my 
  own 
  part 
  I 
  see 
  no 
  reason 
  to 
  be 
  

  

  