History, Ancient; Human beings -- Origin; Prehistoric peoples
Definition of Periods--Passage from Pliocene to Quaternary--Scarcity
of Human Remains in Tertiary--Denudation--Evidence
from Caves wanting--Tertiary Man a necessary
inference from widespread existence of Quaternary Man--Both
equally inconsistent with Genesis--Was the first
great Glaciation Pliocene or Quaternary?--Section of
Perrier--Confirms Croll's Theory--Elephas Meridionalis--Mammoth--St.
Prest--Cut Bones--Instances of Tertiary
Man--Halitherium--Balæonotus--Puy-Courny--Thenay--Evidence
for--Proofs of Human Agency--Latest Conclusions--Gaudry's
Theory--Dryopithecus--Type of Tertiary
Man--Skeleton of Castelnedolo--Shows no approach
to the Missing Link--Contrary to Theory of Evolution--Must
be sought in the Eocene--Evidence from the New
World--Glacial Period in America--Palæolithic Implements--Quaternary
Man--Similar to Europe--California--Conditions
different--Auriferous Gravels--Volcanic Eruptions--Enormous
Denudation--Great Antiquity--Flora and
Fauna--Point to Tertiary Age--Discovery of Human
Remains--Table Mountain--Latest Finds--Calaveras Skull--Summary
of Evidence--Other Evidence--Tuolumne--Brazil--Buenos
Ayres--Nampa Images--Take us farther
from First Origins and the Missing Link--If Darwin's
Theory applies to Man, must go back to the Eocene 343
CHAPTER XII.
RACES OF MANKIND.
Monogeny or Polygeny--Darwin--Existing Races--Colour--Hair--Skulls
and Brains--Dolichocephali and Brachycephali--Jaws
and Teeth--Stature--Other Tests--Isaac Taylor--Prehistoric
Types in Europe--Huxley's Classification--Language no Test of
Race--Egyptian Monuments--Human and Animal Races unchanged for 6000
years--Neolithic Races--Palæolithic--Different Races of Man as far
back as we can trace--Types of Canstadt, Cro-Magnon, and
Furfooz--Oldest Races Dolichocephalic--Skulls of Neanderthal and
Spy--Simian Characters--Objections--Evidence confined to
Europe--American Man--Calaveras Skull--Tertiary Man--Skull
of Castelnedolo--Leaves Monogeny or Polygeny an open
Question--Arguments on each side--Old Arguments from the Bible
and Philology exploded--What Darwinian Theory requires--Animal
Types traced up to the Eocene--Secondary Origins--Dog and
Horse--Fertility of Races--Question of Hybridity--Application
to Man--Difference of Constitutions--Negro and White--Bearing
on Question of Migration--Apes and Monkeys--Question of Original
Locality of Man--Asiatic Theory--Eur-African--American--Arctic--None
based on sufficient Evidence--Mere Speculations--Conclusion--Summary
of Evidence as to Human Origins 391
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLET OF SNEFURA AT WADY MAGERAH 17
SPECIMEN OF HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET 19
PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH AND SPHYNX 24
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