1012 Man in the Tertiaries. (October, 
barrier must have spanned the great oceans in northem bi - 
tudes. | 
It seems an almost fruitless speculation to inquire into tk 
= manner of their dispersion, yet one is tempted to surmise that! 
they originated in the tropics, then submerged continents mus 
be restored to offer the means necessary for such a dispersi 
If, on the other hand, their home was in the north or south tem- 
perate zone, and the distribution circumpolar, which seems mort 
probable, then we have another evidence of the wide separation 
which the race had undergone, at that early day, from: its tropical 
relatives, the apes. Whatever the facts may ultimately show, this 
unparalleled distribution of a people in the lowest stages d 
savagery proves beyond question that man must have preéxiste! 
for an immense period of time, for, with the known fixity of low 
savage tribes, the time required to disperse this people over the 
whole earth can only be measured by geological centuries. 
The farther we penetrate into the past, and ascertain Som 
definite horizon of man’s occurrence, other observers in widely 
different regions of the earth bring to light traces of mani 
existence in equally low horizons. The remoteness of mats 
existence in time and space is so vast that, to 
nomical term, no parallax has thus far been es 
which we can even faintly approximate the CC 
in which he first appeared. By this fact we are pe a 
assumption that the progenitors of quaternary ae under i 
genera possibly, must be sought for in the tertiaries. riii 
Science will not gain by the erection of any theoretical i 
against tertiary man, until such definite forms are met Wh” 
shall reasonably settle the beds in which he first oct 
We know in what rocks it would be obviously absurd e 
for his remains or the remains of any mammal. : 
ever, as forms are found, in the lowest beds of th an 
: j ; st not cease” 
ing the remotest affinity to his order, we Tee padi 
care in scanning unbiased, even the rocks of this pe 
traces of that creature who until within a few short pee g 
garded as five thousand, eight hundred and some 0 bis 
and who despite of protest and prejudice has pee that 
to an antiquity so great anda dispersion so pl pas be 
far no tendency to a convergence of his earliest ee 
demonstrated. 
