Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . BODILY FORMS OF THE PYRAMID BUILDERS, FORTY-THREE CENTURIES FROM THE by B. Strassberger, from door of tomb at Gizeh. mentary breasts of the male, which seemto point to a condition still more primi-tive in the development of our race—to a time when even the sexes had notbeen differentiated the one from theother! As we said above, these facts, and the. conclusions toward which they tend insupport of th
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . BODILY FORMS OF THE PYRAMID BUILDERS, FORTY-THREE CENTURIES FROM THE by B. Strassberger, from door of tomb at Gizeh. mentary breasts of the male, which seemto point to a condition still more primi-tive in the development of our race—to a time when even the sexes had notbeen differentiated the one from theother! As we said above, these facts, and the. conclusions toward which they tend insupport of the hypothesis of evolution,are not adduced in this connection as anevidence of the truth of that theory, but TIME OF THE BEGINNING.—ETHNOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. 117 simply to illustrate the testimony whichanthropology is able to give respectingVast reach of the antiquity of man. For time requisite to j t fc } b produce anatom-ical changes, the time requisite for producing such astounding changes ashave manifestly taken place in theorgans and functions of the humanbody! Consider for a moment thebackward look which we are ableto give to the condition of man-kind by the single light of is hardly an exaggeration to re-fer to consecutive facts in the an-nals of Egypt as far away as threethousand years before the Christianera; yet among the most ancientworks of that primitive seat of civil-ization we are able to discover un-mistakably the presence of theman-form already differentiatedinto ethnic varieties and presentaspects of activity
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