Christian faith in an age of science . ipelago, the home of the orang andthe gibbon, is exceedingly suggestive to an may probably claim an antiquity far more remotethan that of paleolithic man in Europe. The question of the antiquity of man was first ear-nestly discussed on geological grounds, but evidencesfrom various other sources converge towards the be-lief in an antiquity far beyond the limits of the tradi-tional chronology. On some of the Egyptian monu-ments belonging to the Eighteenth Dynasty, thirteencenturies before the Christian era, we find paintingsof Caucasians a
Christian faith in an age of science . ipelago, the home of the orang andthe gibbon, is exceedingly suggestive to an may probably claim an antiquity far more remotethan that of paleolithic man in Europe. The question of the antiquity of man was first ear-nestly discussed on geological grounds, but evidencesfrom various other sources converge towards the be-lief in an antiquity far beyond the limits of the tradi-tional chronology. On some of the Egyptian monu-ments belonging to the Eighteenth Dynasty, thirteencenturies before the Christian era, we find paintingsof Caucasians and Negroes, exhibiting the contrast incolor and in form of face and head as clearly definedas it is at the present time. Perhaps two thousand * Dubois, PithecantJn-opus erectus^ in Smithsonian Report^ 1898, p. 445. 77 The Antiquity of Man years earlier, in monuments referred to the FifthDynasty, are figures in bas-rehef, which are saidto reproduce faithfully the racial characters of thepygmy race of the Akkas described by Schweinfurth. Fig. 8.—Egyptian mural painting, showing contrast between Cau-casian and Negro profiles. From Argylls Primeval Man. as living in the country west of the Albert Nyanza.*Strongly contrasting with such a prognathous type arethe pure Caucasian outlines of the royal portraits inthe early, as in the later, dynasties. The distinct andindependent origin of a number of human races isextremely improbal^le. The whole tendency of scien- * Keane, Ethnology^ p. 245. 78 Divergence of Races of Men tific thought would lead us rather to believe that eventhe most extremely divergent of human races havearisen by variation from a single original stock. But,if races so distinct as the Caucasian and the Negro hadacquired their present characters thousands of yearsago, the suggestion is obvious that the beginning ofthat differentiation must have been in remote antiquity. A similar argument may be drawn from the historyof languages. It is indeed true that comparative p
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