20 WILLIAM DALE, ESQ., F.S.A., f.G.S., ON PREHISTOEIC MAN : 



of tilings wMcli do appear. Tlirougli faith we understand that 

 man was placed upon the topmost pinnacle of God's wonderful 

 creation, and all things put under him. And there we leave the 

 question. I cannot explain in any other way the new creation, 

 the new birth, which is not only a truth of Kevelation but an 

 actual fact occurring in our very midst. The wind bloweth where 

 it listethj and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence 

 it cometh and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of 

 the Spirit. This mighty change which comes to a man is so real, 

 that even the secular world and the daily newspaper cannot ignore 

 it. Writing in 1906, concerning the work of the Salvation Army 

 and on the word " Eegeneration,'' The Daily Mail says : — " There 

 is more miracle in that word than in all the pages of Scripture 

 over which men of science and theologians quarrel and contend 

 with a becoming amity and a dignified tedium. To take a man 

 so sunken in infamy that his very mother has cast him off, and 

 to make that man almost in the twinkling of an eye conscious of 

 his immortality and joyful in the thought of God's clemency, this 

 is a miracle before which science herself is silent, and this is what 

 the Salvation Army is doing every day and hour of the day. 

 It is the engine by which men are born again. It goes to the 

 vilest, and makes them the purest.'' 



The past history of man then, we deal with in the light of the 

 faith we hold so dear ; and looking forward to the future we find 

 also in the resurrection of his body and future destiny things 

 which reason cannot grasp nor science analyse. For they that 

 are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and they 

 that hear shall live ; and then this complex, this wonderful 

 body whose history we have tried to trace, shall be fashioned 

 like unto His own glorious body, according to the mighty working, 

 whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself. 



Written Communications. 



The Eev. Canon R. B. Girdlestone, M.A. : I am much interested 

 in Mr. Dale's paper on " Prehistoric Man " : his date and his 

 relation to apes, etc. There is a picture by the late Professor Owen, 

 of Man — the Gorilla, which speaks for itself. We read slow progress 

 into what may have been originally rajpid, owing to the putting 

 forth of special force No reference is made by Mr. Dale to Alfred 

 Kussel Wallace's view, expressed in his World of Life (1910), and 



