ews agree the later doctrines of the
Bible as to the "trichotomy" of "body, soul, and spirit" in man, and
of the added influence of the Spirit of God as acting on humanity.

E.--RECENT FACTS AS TO THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN.

Several recent statements as to new facts supposed to prove a
preglacial antiquity for our species have been promulgated in
scientific journals; but so great doubt rests upon them that they do
not invalidate the statement that the earliest human remains belong to
the postglacial age. I may refer to the following:

A very remarkable discovery was made in 1875 by Professor Rutimeyer,
of Basle. In a brown coal deposit of Tertiary, or at least of
"interglacial" age--whatever that may mean in Switzerland--he found
some fragments of wood so interlaced as to resemble wattle or
basket-work. Steenstrup has, however, re-examined the evidence, and
adduces strong reasons for the conclusion that the alleged human
workmanship is really that of beavers.

The Swedish geologists have shown that there is no properly
Palaeolithic age in Scandinavia, and that even the reindeer had
probably disappeared from Denmark and Sweden before their occupation
by man. Some facts, however, seemed to indicate a residence of man in
Sweden before the great post-pliocene subsidence. One of the most
important of these is the celebrated hut of Sodertelge, referred to in
this connection by Lyell. Recent observations have, however, shown
that this hut was really covered by a landslip, and that its age may
not be greater than eight centuries. Torel has recently explained this
in the Proceedings of the Archaeological Congress of Stockholm.

The human bone found in the Victoria Cave at Settle, apparently under
a patch of boulder-clay, has been regarded as a good evidence of the
preglacial origin of man. It has, however, always appeared to readers
of the description as a very doubtful case; and Professor Hughes, of
Cambridge, has recently expressed the opinion that the drift covering
the bone may be merely a "pocket" of that material disengaged from a
cavity in the limestone by the wearing of the cliff.

The same geologist has also shown reason to believe that the supposed
case of the occurrence of palaeolithic implements under boulder-clay
near Brandon, discovered by Mr. Skertchley, and paraded by Geikie as a
demonstration of the "interglacial" antiquity of man, in accordance
with his system of successive glacial periods, is rea