Note 1654 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

“We cannot fix a date, in the historical sense, for events which happened outside history, and cannot measure the antiquity of man in terms of years.” Dawkins in No. Am. Rev., Oct., 1883, p. 338. Tylor (Early Hist. of Mankind, 197) says “Geological evidence, though capable of showing the lapse of vast periods of time, has scarcely admitted of these periods being brought into definite chronological terms.” Prestwich (On the geol. position and age of flint-implement-bearing beds, London, 1864,—from the Roy. Soc. Phil. Trans.) says: “However we extend our present chronology with respect to the first appearance of men, it is at present unsafe and premature to count by hundreds of thousands of years.” Southall (Recent Origin of Man, ch. 33) epitomizes the extreme views of the advocates of glaciation in the present temperate zone.