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and. gone in less than 200^000 years. If that period is not 
long enough to produce an appreciable change, 160,000 years 
added to it (which is CrolFs estimate for the Glacial epoch) 
certainly would not convert an ape into a man. I am inclined, 
then, to say that Charles Darwin^s theory has absolutely 
broken down. Broken down from want of time. 
36. To the question, by what successive steps did man rise to 
the culture of a flint-chipping savage ? The candid admission 
of Professor Boyd Dawkins is, that on this point there is no 
evidence. We can merely guess.* 
37. I have adduced much evidence respecting the Glacial 
period, and that evidence points to a necessary break in the 
continuity of life, and it will require more than a guess to take 
the place of that evidence. I do not profess to have j^roved 
the break to demonstration, but I think I have succeeded in 
showing it to a very high amount of probability, and, if a break, 
then man was created, not evolved. 
38. Those who hold to the hypothesis of evolution would 
require to bring evidence of more than a few survivals from 
a pre-glacial period to account for a new fauna of many 
species in post-glacial times. Every species now living should 
have had its representative in pre-glacial times, seeing that 
there was not time during the Glacial period, nor since, to 
produce the change required by the hypothesis. Every form 
now living not so represented must have been a creation of 
post-glacial times. 
39. I am now anxious to see what is the evidence on the 
other side, as it is vital to the hypothesis of evolution that there 
should be no breah, and no post-glacial creation. Professor 
Huxley^s pedigree of the horse is generally referred to as the 
most conclusive (it was mentioned in the Presidents address) . 
The idea afloat is that Professor Huxley has proved the 
doctrine of evolution, so far as the horse is concerned, and the 
inference is drawn that what is true of the horse is, in all 
probability, true of all other animal forms. 
40. Professor Huxley claims to have traced the horse back to 
the hipparion, hipparion to anchitherium, and anchitherium 
to orohippus. The pedigree is traced principally by the feet, 
the assumption being that all the various forms of the mam- 
malian foot have been derived from animals with flve-toed feet. 
41. The bear and the horse (Professor Huxley^s own illustra- 
tions)! are both mammals, and both constructed on the same 
* Cave Hunting, p. 426. 
t Lecture by Professor Huxley, London Institute, 1876, reported in the 
English Mechanic. 
