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that professor Ileer's Miocene arctic continent was the cradle 
of all floral types and the cradle of all faunal forms, and yet to 
deny that it was also the cradle of the human race, is what few- 
philosophical minds are likely long to do." 
Dr. Warren enters upon a long research in ancient liter- 
ature, both anthropological, ethnological, traditional and niyth< 
©logical, with a wonderful sweep of classical lore, tending to 
show that the earliest ancients possesssed some knowledge of 
their origin at the north, and traditions, both biblical and pro- 
fane which when correctly understood point to the same con- 
clusion. His first printed ainiouncement of this result appeared 
in the Boston Daily Advertiser, of J\'Iay 25, 1883. This view 
had, however, been presented in lectures for some years pre- 
vious, based on the foregoing evidences. 
Mr. Scribner's volume in its first edition appeared in 1883, 
and Dr. Warren was then in the midst of composing his final 
treatise. A copy was sent to Dr. Warren, who at once made 
extended extracts from it as accordant with his own viewi. 
There is no doubt that his publication on this topic preceded 
the incidental allusion to the commencement of life at the pole 
by Dr. Warren as published in "Paradise Found," but the 
earlier publications by Dr. Warren "in a printed essay," and his 
lectures to the students for a year previous must have covered 
the same ground. This is also in keeping with Dr. Warren's 
statement (p. 103) where he says: "As l^Ir. Scribner was con- 
ducted to a belief in the north polar origin of all races of living 
creatures by considerations quite independent of those myth- 
ological and historical ones which first led the present writer 
to the same opinion, the reader of these pages will find in the 
following extracts a special incentive to procure and read the 
entij? treatise from which they are taken. That two minds 
starting with such entirely different data should havo reached 
so nearly simultaneously one and the same conclusion touching 
so difficult and many-sided a problem is surely not without sig- 
nificance." This preliminary remark is due here to the • iriier 
conception, if not publication, of Dr. Warren, since not onl\ Mr. 
Scribner in his preface, but professor J- L. Wortman in th<' ap- 
pendix, (quoted from Am. Jour. Sci.., June, 1903) seem to be 
ignorant of W^irren's views and the date of their publication. 
Mr. Scribner's argument is wholly along lines of iih-sical 
