"Are you right in supposing that man first rose to civilization in a great Atlantic island? We can conceive, as I have shown, mankind at some central point, like the Atlantic island, building up anew, after the Drift Age, the shattered fragments of pre-glacial civilization, and hence becoming to the post-glacial ancient world the center and apparent fountain of all cultivation. But in view of the curious discoveries made, as I have shown, in the glacial clays of the United {p. 405} States, further investigations may prove that it was on the North American Continent civilization was first born, and that it was thence moved _eastward_ over the bridge-like ridges to Atlantis. And it is, in this connection, remarkable that the Bible tells us (Genesis, chap. ii, v. 8): "And the Lord God planted a garden _eastward, in Eden_; and there he put the man that he had formed." He had first (v. 7) "formed man of the dust of the ground," and then he moves him eastward to Eden, to the garden. And, as I have shown, when the fall of man came, when the Drift destroyed the lovely Tertiary conditions, man was _again moved eastward_; he was driven out of Eden, and the cherubims guarded the _eastern_ extremity of the garden, to prevent man's return from (we will say) the shores of Atlantis. In other words, the present habitat of men is, as I have shown, according to the Bible, _east_ of their former dwelling-place. In the age of man's declension he moved eastward. In the age of his redemption he moves westward. Hence, if the Bible is to be relied on, before man reached the garden of Eden, he had been created in some region _west of the garden_, to wit, in America; and here he may have first developed the civilization of which we find traces in Illinois, showing a metal-working race sufficiently advanced to have an alphabet and a currency. But in all this we do not touch upon the question of where man was first formed by God. The original birthplace of the human race who shall tell? It was possibly in some region now under the ocean, as Professor Winchell has suggested; there he was evolved during the mild, equable, gentle, plentiful, 406 CONCLUSIONS. garden-age of the Tertiary; in the midst of the most favorable conditions for increasing the vigor of life and expanding it into new forms. It showed its influence by developing mammalian life in one direction into the monstrous forms of the mammoth and the mastodon, the climax of animal growth; and in the other direction into the more marvelous expansion of mentality found in man. There are two things necessary to a comprehension of that which lies around us--development and design, evolution and purpose; God's way and God's intent. Neither alone will solve the problem. These are the two limbs of the right angle which meet at the first life-cell found on earth, and lead out until we find man at one extremity and God at the other.