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 .. . ic much remains as yet indetermi-nate, while the evidence in many parts isindecisive, while the application of thelaw of averages and probabilities maymislead somewhat the most skillfulresearch respecting the vestigia of humanlife in the prehistoric ages, we are never- theless fully warranted, by the juxta-position of all the proofs, in accepting itas an established fact that the appear-ance of the h
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 .. . ic much remains as yet indetermi-nate, while the evidence in many parts isindecisive, while the application of thelaw of averages and probabilities maymislead somewhat the most skillfulresearch respecting the vestigia of humanlife in the prehistoric ages, we are never- theless fully warranted, by the juxta-position of all the proofs, in accepting itas an established fact that the appear-ance of the human race belongs to adate not less than two hundred centuriesfrom the present time. It only remainsto remind the reader that humanrace in this assignment of an approxi-mate date for its apparition signifiesthat species of beings the traces of whoseprimitive life are found close down tothe miocene era in geology, a specieshaving the rudiments of reason, the up-right form, and the potency of the civil-ized life, but otherwise not strongly dis-criminated from the higher primatesexcept in the ability to fashion an im-plement and to kindle a fire. CHAPTER QUEST OF AVING traversed thefield of inquiry respect-ing the probable dateof mans appearance onthe earth, we come, inthe next place, to con-sider the place of hisorigin. Since there was a time in the his-tory of our globe when men did not exist\ipon its surface, and since there was a dateat which human beings in some mannermade their appearance and became theprogenitors of the race, there must havebeen a place of apparition, Origin of man- . life necessarily a point or points from in some locality. ^.^ ^ ^ men and their descendants took their departureto people the earth. Science, conjec-ture, and blank dogmatism have all inturn sought to solve this problem. Norcan it well be said that even at the pres-ent advanced stage of inquiry the ques-tion has been satisfactorily settled. It will be seen at a glance that the
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