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frontosiis, vrill need further discussion before their acceptance by 
palaeontologists. With these domesticated or domesticable species 
of ox, flourished in Switzerland the Bison priscus, a species which 
the most strenuous efforts of the early Europeans would not have 
rendered capable of serving as a docile, milk-producing beast. The 
raask-bufi'alo Biihalus (Ovihos) moschatus^ which lived in glacial clay 
and drift in England contemporary with the elephant, and tichorhine 
rhinoceros, has not hitherto been found associated with the remains 
of man. 
Morton, in his posthumous manuscripts,* said, " Why may we not 
discover the remains of man in the tertiary deposits, in the cretace- 
ous beds, or even in the oolites?" — a supposition which, considering 
we have not yet quite proved his existence in the post-pliocene, is as 
probable as that " for the real origin of man we must go immeasurably 
farther back from the time of the existence of man amongst the 
Mammoths, into the great Pliocene or Miocene ages." 
When we find his remains in the tertiary or secondary strata, it 
will be time enough to discuss the question. Till then, the negative 
evidence which disproves the existence of monkeys, the ancestors 
of man on the derivative hypothesis, in any stratum below the eocene 
rocks, must check our desire to anticipate the conclusions which 
future palseontolog-ists may arrive at, through a slow and cautious 
process of induction and observation. 
With the broad question of the antiquity of the human race the 
foregoing remarks have no necessary, or even contingent, connection. 
A higher and more satisfactory evidence than any which the geologist 
or the cranioscopist can bring to bear, is furnished us by the researches 
of those ethnologists and philologists who have most studied the affi- 
liations and relations of the most ancient languages of the globe. 
Upon the supposition that such languages as the Sanscrit, Greco- 
Latin, Teutonic, Keltic, and Lithuanian, have been derived from a 
once-primeval " Arian" stock, a vast lapse of time is necessary during 
which their derivation and divergence from such parent stem took 
place. Upon the rejection of the "Arian" hypothesis,f and the 
acceptance of the doctrine of diverse ethnic centres of linguistic 
origin, an equal or greater lapse of time is necessary during which 
such a language as the Greek could have improved by ascensive 
developuient from the simple utterances of a barbarous early tongue 
to the high grade of philological civilization when Homer wrote. 
Such a supposition would corroborate the conclusions to which 
a priori analogy would lead the geologist ; but it would leave the 
problem of the origin of the inferior non-" Arian " races of men un- 
solved. The great question of the origin of these races, whether as 
our representatives in a state of arrested moral and mental develop- 
ment ; whether as the scanty remnants of inferior types which, 
called into being ages before the advent of the "Arian" race, have 
passed the fore-ordained limit which "species" can attain, and are 
* Usher, in Nott and Gliddon, 'Types of Mankind,' p. 343. 
t Crawfurd, ' Antiquity of Man on the Evidence of Lana:nage.' Trans. Ethnological 
Society, 1862. 
