60 
the great stature and grand development of the limbs 11 ^e oE thc mo 
ancient skeletons which are entire or nearly so, testify to a race > of men 11 
finely constituted physically than the majority of existing Europeans ^ The 
skull found by Schmerling in the Cave of Engis, associated with the bones ot 
the mammoth and other extinct animals, is of good form ™d large capacity, 
and presents characters which, though recalling those of some Emopea 
racesf also resemble those of the native races of Amerma, Th, ones de 
scribed by Christy and Lartet from the Cave of hT develou- 
represent a race of great stature, strength, and agility, and » & evelop 
ment of brain above the European average ; but the toes of _the face sho 
tendency to the Mongolian and American visage, and the skeletons piesent 
peculiarities in the boles of the limbs found also in .American » md n- 
dicatino- probably, addiction to hunting and a migratory and active lite. 
“iSCol people lived at an epoch when France was overgrown 
withtae forlsts, when the mammoth probably fingered in ^ higher dis- 
tricts and when a We part of the food of its people was furnished bv the 
reindeer. Still more remarkable perhaps, is the fossil man, 
called of Mentone, recently found m a cave m the South of France, bunea 
under' cavern accumulations 7 which bespeak a great antiquity, “d a ^omted 
with bones of extinct mammalia and with rudejy-fashioned impleme ite ot 
flint. It appears from the careful descriptions of Dr. Emer ® “ 
must have been six feet high and of vast muscular power, more especially in 
the legs, which present the same American peculiarities atoady d 
in the Cro-Magnon skeletons. The skuU is of great capacity, the forehead 
fufi, and the face, though broad and Mongolian and large-boned, is ! not pro 
gnathous, and has a h^h facial angle. The perfect edition of the teeth, 
along with their being worn perfectly flat on the crowns, wou PT 
healthy and vigorous constitution and great longevity > .T&i 
of food, probably vegetable, while the fact that the left arm had been broken 
and the bone healed shows active and possibly warhke tobits. Such a man^ 
if he were to rise up again among us, might perhaps be a “ut a ™ble 
savage, with all our capacity for culture, and presenting no more affinity 
aP If thTqlestion be asked, What precise relation do these pritotive Euro- 
pean men bear to anything in sacred history ? we can only say tffiat they all 
?eem to indicate one lace, tnd this allied to the old took 
ern Asia, which has its outlying branches to this both m Amenca d 
Europe. If they are antediluvians, they show that the old Nephefim and 
Gibborim of the times before the flood were men of g reat Pby^I a s well as 
mental power, but not markedly distinct from modern races of ^ 
are postdiluvians, then they reveal *e quafities of the old Kephaim a 
Anakim of Palestine, who not improbably were of the Kble if wl 
case, they may well have points oi historical contact with the Bible, 
were better informed as to their date and distribution.. , , . 
I have referred to European facts only, but it is y™ a * a ^*f'd 
America the oldest race known to us is that of the ancl “*t?latare aid 
Toltecans and their allies, and that these, too, were men of “f s ‘ a W 3 
o-rpat rranial development, and agricultural and semi-civilized, their actual 
position being not dLimiliar from that attributed to the earliest cultivators 
of the soil in the times of Adam or Noah. . . . 
So far the facts bearing on the physical and mental conflation of primi tive 
man are not favourable to evolution, and are more in accordance with the 
theory of Divine Creation, and with the statements of the sacred record. 
Recent facts with reference to primitive man show that his religious beliefs 
we?e si^r"e referred to in Scripture The whok otohe l™ g -olat d 
inhpq of America held to a primitive monotheism or belief in a b»reat &pirn, 
ItTas notonly the create and ruler of the heaven and the earth, but had 
