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pages. The Christian student should never overlook this ; for in this way 
the Book of Genesis will supply a fountain of thought which may 
harmonize with many of the discoveries of archaeology. Mr. Howard said in 
his paper that Scripture described a brief period of a stone age ; I venture to 
differ from him ; it was a long period. Hales’s chronology makes the stone 
age in Scripture to cover 1,500 years. Calmet makes the period from Adam 
to the birth of Tubal Cain to cover 900 years. But Hales’s chronology is 
that most generally followed. Take it therefore on his calculation, and you 
have a stone age according to Scripture of 1,500 years, during which 
time there was an overpowering tendency, through the fall of man, 
toward gradual degradation, leading on to the period of the Flood, when the 
disorganization of mankind became excessive. But for 1,500 years, though 
man thus lapsed from the high moral condition in which he had been formed 
by the great Creator, he still had a material civilization. This primitive race, 
existing on the slopes of Asia, would gradually extend itself ; certain 
waves of population going out in a northerly direction, and so arriving in 
Europe. Imagine these people under the influences of a severer climate, and 
of scarcer food than that to which they had before been accustomed ; would 
they not gradually become more and more uncivilized, their moral and 
material civilization being lost in inhospitable climates 1 Would they not 
gradually become savage hunters, such as our archaeologists find, in proportion 
as they went further northward and got into Arctic regions ? I take it that 
the first wave of population going north would represent what our archaeo- 
logists call the pakmlithic race. Is this not quite consistent with Scripture '\ 
With a second wave of migration no doubt the art of working in stone 
would be improved. Chipped stone would be set aside ; and by an improved 
operation of working, they would arrive at the neolithic age. In 1,500 
years surely such waves of population might have swept over Europe and 
Asia, so that it would be perfectly consistent with the Scriptures, that their 
remains should now be found just where the population went. It was not till 
afterwards that the metal-working races, — I mean Tubal Cain and his 
descendants, — came upon the scene. This again would represent another 
long period, before that higher civilization arose of those great city-builders 
who founded Babylon and ancient Egypt. This is an interesting way of 
regarding the subject, and it is one which has been to a great extent over- 
looked by Mr. Howard in his accumulation of other facts. I believe that if 
we analyze them carefully they will contribute much to a reconciliation of 
prehistoric archaeology with Scripture. Still there remains the question, as 
to the non-appearance of these races, or rather of their remains, archseo- 
logically, in the cradle of the human family. Why is this ? Because they 
lived in the sunny climes of Central Asia, and were not brought 
into such conflict with those terrible forces which were found in northern 
climes. This, I think, is -why we do not discover their bones in caves, 
along with the mammoth, the rhinoceros, the cave bear. Their remains 
