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 .. . cluding the life of manin common stages of development, inregions remote from each other by thebreadth of continents and seas, and al-most inaccessible on account of physicalbarriers interposing themselves to themovements of the first tribes of men,we must be profoundly impressed withthe great depth of the chronological per-spective, and might well conclude thatthe lapse of time requisite for the distri-bution of
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 .. . cluding the life of manin common stages of development, inregions remote from each other by thebreadth of continents and seas, and al-most inaccessible on account of physicalbarriers interposing themselves to themovements of the first tribes of men,we must be profoundly impressed withthe great depth of the chronological per-spective, and might well conclude thatthe lapse of time requisite for the distri-bution of the first men, whoever theywere, from any common point of originto the respective localities where we findthe first evidences of man-life in thematrix of geology, would be as greatas all that vast geological period whichlies between such earliest evidences ofhuman activity and the present time. Chaptp:r IV. -Arch/eological andlogical Argument. PALi«ONTO= HE relations of ar-chaeology to geologyhave already been in-dicated in the firstchapter of this remains for us inthis connection to pointout with more care and elaboration thebearings of archaeological science on the. question of the date of the appearanceof mankind on the earth. Archaeologymay be properly defined—though withseeming paradox of language—as pre-historic history. At first glance the in-ference might well be drawn that thestudy of archaeology, leading us back-ward as it does along the positive tracesof the human race, would furnish more TIME OF THE BEGINNING.—ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOFS. 101 satisfactory data relative to the Age ofMan than might possibly be derived fromNature of the the astronomical or geolog- testimony to be j j g^e Qf tjie question,derived from _ x archaeology. Such, however, is not thefact. While it is true that much moresatisfactory and direct evidencemay be gained from archaeolog-ical sources with respect to themode and limitations of theprimitive life of man than canbe deduced from g
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