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remains are found, even in this country, mixed with the cave-bear, 
lion, and hyena; the hippopotamus, mammoth, rhinoceros 
tichorhinus, bos primigenius, &c. And there is evidence that we 
must relegate our ancestors to the later Eocene period; whilst 
from remains of spears and hunting implement, we judge that 
there must have been mighty hunters, veritable Nimrods, in 
Pleistocene times, All this must put back the date of the advent 
of man at least a quarter of a million of years. 
One thought, so great that I cannot pass it over, comes from 
the Spectroscope. We can observe suns millions, hundreds of 
millions, of miles away, and find that it is far more than probable 
that if the inhabitants of their planets could view us spectro- 
scopically, they would observe the same characteristics we 
view in them. The same common elements—Oxygen, Hydrogen, 
Nitrogen, Carbon, Sodium, Potassium, &c., would show out their 
well-marked Frauenhofer lines. . 
If this be so, is not the Universe made for man? May not 
Scientists indulge in the thought brought to us in one of our 
childhood’s books—Evenings at Home—in the transmigrations of 
Indur, that there is reserved for those who strive to learn an 
abundant and constantly progressing harvest of knowledge in 
some other sphere in the grand hereafter! It would seem folly to 
waste the grand material (for such I must call it) of the human 
mind in anything but progressive conditions. 
But whilst this thought towards other worlds was going on,: 
thought about our own bodies and their betterment was putting 
a spoke in the wheel of the field of such thought. 
Anatomy and Physiology sprung up as accurate sciences. The 
improvements in medicine and surgery, hygiene and dietary, that 
were the outcome, made men and women able to work and think 
better, and life was made longer. Contrasted with two hundred 
years ago, everybody lives on an average 13°3 years longer 
than then. 
The invention of vaccination by Jenner, and the consequent 
decrease of consumption is amongst the foremost of causes. 
Observe how, through want of Scientific thought, the people 
suffered in times gone by. Think of four hundred years ago 
in England, when many other countries were as luxuriously living 
