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appeakance of man. 
fathers, in the scanty furniture and preca¬ 
rious subsistence of savage life, rise upon 
the view ; the scooped canoe, the flimsy 
coracle, the hut, the weapon, tell us of 
their life; and they are thus linked to the 
extinct organisms of the past. The cavern 
animals of former races are connected in 
local associations with their successors, 
the cavern dwellers of the present race. 
Though very many centuries probably elap¬ 
sed between the disappearance of the ele¬ 
phant and the appearance of man on the 
banks of the Thames, yet this is not a 
wider interval than is indicated by a hun¬ 
dred previous breaks in the chain of or¬ 
ganic life. 
The new fact, however—the appearance of 
man—is one of which all investigation of 
previous phenomena had premonished us by 
faint shadows. We see the result, and are 
permitted to trace some features of the 
plan. The creation of man was not merely 
one event of a long series of developements, 
but a grand special occurrence to which all 
these phenomena were made subservient. 
