FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN KENT’S CAVERN. 375 
fire; they made implements of nodules, not flakes, of flint and 
chert; tools that were rude and massive, had but little regularity 
of outline, and were but roughly chipped. 
Whether these old Cave-men, more and more rude as they were 
more and more ancient, were or were not incapable of anything 
beyond their savage state I will not venture to say; but if they 
were the degenerate descendants of men pretty much lke our- 
selves in powers and gifts, their intellectual progenitors are 
necessarily shrouded in an antiquity much greater than even that 
with which we have been dealing, and sooner or later it may in 
that case be expected that deposits older far than the most ancient 
yet met with in Kent’s Hole will yield a number, a variety, and a 
style of human industrial remains that shall utterly eclipse the 
comparatively rude, yet eminently precious, human relics which I 
have had the pleasure of describing from Kent’s Cavern. When 
they are produced Science will it may be hoped be prompt to 
recognize and welcome them; and if they should never be forth- 
coming, it is equally to be hoped that Science will ask the advocates 
of degeneracy to account for the fact. 
Pee Be 
