from a single pair.” He then expresses his firm belief that 
all science supports this conclusion, which tends to establish 
the antiquity of man on a firmer basis. He then resolves his 
examination of the subject into three divisions for its full 
exhaustion, which, though connected, maybe treated separately 
as three subjects : — 
I. The origin of man, considered chiefly as a species, as 
regards his creation and his admission into the world. 
II. The antiquity of man, or his time in the geological 
history and preparation of the earth for his appearance on 
the globe. 
III. His mental and moral culture. 
Evidently dissatisfied with the utter barbarism proposed 
by Sir John Lubbock, as the condition of “ the first man, 
worthy of being so called,” as well as the inuendo referring 
to the gorilla or some other creature not worthy to be so 
called, he clearly points out <( that utter barbarism is by no 
means a necessary consequence of all the races of mankind, 
however, whenever, or wherever originating” ; but that the 
first communicated knowledge, and the special powers of 
acquiring knowledge and the other powers of usefulness, 
were inseparably connected with the created organization 
“ which made him worthy of being called man.” 
As a person from this country intending to emigrate to a 
distant colony, naturally examines a gazetteer or geographical 
account, to obtain some information as to the proposed land 
of his adoption ; or, as a student of English history, without 
lingering on the period of the Conquest (as the Duke and 
others do on the Pair of Eden), anxiously inquires who our 
British ancestors were, under the guidance of Lysons ; so I 
boldly press into the dawn of Bible history, sure to find there 
the very earliest record of events, with the order of their 
progressive course marked with clearness. Without resting 
merely on the data afforded by the inspired record, I search 
the works of the same all-pervading creative force, and there 
step by step, in the same regularity, the finger of God, as on 
Sinai, has affixed His testimony on the solid masses of the 
earth's crust ; proving the reciprocal accordance of the Word 
and the Work. Had the Duke commenced with his second 
division — the geological — he would have been able to trace 
mankind and its various races much anterior to the Edenic 
Adam. 
It is with the object of tracing out the first glimpses of 
man that I begin with the first chapter of Genesis, as con- 
taining a succinct though brief account of the events of the 
first Creative Week or Period, throughout which each day is 
