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which we can trace his relics, of fabricating pottery, and there- 
fore acquainted with the use of fire.* We may well ask why 
we do not find more abundant remains of his works in this 
direction, and why he did not make greater improvement in 
all this time. The same may be said of his artistic drawings 
in ivory of the mammoth and other coeval beasts. He could 
also produce great changes in the earth's surface, as we see 
by the representation of the mammoth and the other mounds 
in Ohio. Why are these works so few and so much limited ? 
Did the Glacial period benumb his faculties, and did some 
diluvial catastrophe sweep him in great measure from the 
earth before he had time to subdue it ? If science should dis- 
cover this, it will present us with one more extraordinary point 
of resemblance to an ancient record, styled “ The Oracles of 
God," which it is at so great pains to discredit. 
The verification of knowledge, or real science, is a source of 
strength as well as of pleasure to the mind ;f whilst the admis- 
sion (on the authority of great names) of wild speculation has 
the exactly opposite effect. The latest theories of our century 
show as complete ignorance of the principles of chemistry 
as of theology ; and I trust that I have succeeded in demon- 
strating that the teachings of the Devonshire Caves must be 
subjected to the rigorous control of experimental science before 
the conclusion to which they have been supposed to point 
can be admitted to have any weight in the instruction of 
the popular mind. 
It is not real science that is opposed to real religion, but an 
impostor that has usurped her name, to whom the “ Positi- 
vists ” and prophets of the age would compel us to bow down 
and worship. We are to look upon the threefold image of the 
modern Buddha, representing to us the past, the present, and 
the future, and benignantly beholding its adorer with that 
imperturbable smile of ineffable self-conceit to which we are 
accustomed. 
We are told to believe that it reflects the rising beams of the 
sun of truth; and what time the discordant voices of the great 
and small serials command, we are in like manner to do homage. 
Would that some real iconoclast — some English Virchoiv — 
might arise to strip off all the false gilding, and so enable 
every one to see that the image is a block ( inutile lignum ) 
fashioned after the similitude of its fabricators, and nothing 
more ! 
* See “ A fragment of pottery found by McEnery in the breccia ; ” also 
other authors — D’Orbigny, passim, Southall, p. 76, Sir C. Lyell, p. 133, and 
M. Chabas, p. 581. Lapoterie nc fournit consequemment aucun argument 
aux longs chronologistes.” f Appendix G. 
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