re of brutes.

It is plain that if American naturalists have done nothing more in
favor of the lowly origin of man than that which Professor Morse has
been able, evidently with much industry and pains, to gather, we need
not for the present abandon our claims to a higher origin. It is
farther significant in connection with this that Professor Huxley, in
his lectures in New York, while resting his case as to the lower
animals mainly on the supposed genealogy of the horse, which has often
been shown to amount to no certain evidence,[156] avoided altogether
the discussion of the origin of man from apes, now obviously
complicated with so many difficulties that both Wallace and Mivart
are staggered by them. Professor Thomas, in his recent lectures,[157]
admits that there is no lower man known than the Australian, and that
there is no known link of connection with the monkeys; and
Haeckel[158] has to admit that the penultimate link in his phylogeny,
the ape-like man, is absolutely unknown.

In Chapter XIII. I have not touched on the question of the absolute
origin of language--this not being necessary to my argument. On this
interesting subject, however, we have, in the naming of the animals by
the first man, recorded in the second chapter of Genesis, not only the
primary truth of his superiority to them, but a farther indication
that the roots of human speech, other than interjectional, lie in
onomatopoeia, and especially in the voices of animals, and that the
gift of speech was not the slow growth of ages, but an endowment of
man from the first, just as much as any of his other powers or
properties. An interesting discussion of this subject will be found in
the concluding chapters of Wilson's "Prehistoric Man," second edition.
Farther, the so-called "tallies" found with the bones of Palaeocosmic
men in European caves, and illustrated in the admirable work of
Christy and Lartet, show that the rudiments even of writing were
already in possession of the oldest race of men known to archaeology or
geology. (See Wilson, _op. cit._, vol. ii., p. 54.)

I have not noticed, except incidentally, the alleged discoveries of
very ancient human remains in America, as they all appear very
problematical. There is, however, some evidence of the coexistence of
man with the mastodon and other postglacial animals in Illinois and
elsewhere.

F.--BEARING OF GLACIAL PERIODS UPON THE INTERPRETATION OF
GENESIS.

Whatever views may be taken