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 .. . deven the lion are, to the ... Ferocious beasts present time, fully capable not wholly ofof sustaining a degree of tropical habitat-cold approaching that of thearctic circle, and that these crea-tures have receded into their pres-ent habitat, not because of itstropical character, but for thereason that civilization has driventhem back into those fastnesseswhere an abundance of vegetable-eating animals furnish subs
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 .. . deven the lion are, to the ... Ferocious beasts present time, fully capable not wholly ofof sustaining a degree of tropical habitat-cold approaching that of thearctic circle, and that these crea-tures have receded into their pres-ent habitat, not because of itstropical character, but for thereason that civilization has driventhem back into those fastnesseswhere an abundance of vegetable-eating animals furnish subsistencefor the carnivora. In prehistoricEurope, therefore, there was no reasonfor the nonexistence of these savap;ebeasts close along the line of the re-ceding glaciers. At the present timethe Indian tiger, where the wall of civil-ization is not around him, breaks freelyfrom his jungle, pursuing the antelopeand the deer up the slopes of the Him-alayas to the line of perpetual snow;while the leopard, the panther, and thecheetah stop not even for the snow, butfollow their prey into the fastnesses ofSiberia. For these reasons we may perceiveclearly the fallacy in the argument of. SKULL OF CAVE HYENA. those who would reduce the date of thefirst men by claiming that the associa-tion of their bones, even in the mostprimitive localities, is with the relics ofanimals which, though extinct, must TIME OF THE BEGINNING.—ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOFS. 105 deducible from. archaeological data. have existed at a period long subsequentto the glacial age. There are, however, some direct evi-dences of the antiquity of archaeologicalremains; that is, evidences in the re-Direct evidence mains themselves. By com-mon consent the stone agemarks the first stage inthe human evolution. Now stone, whenit is worked by the human hand, orwhen broken or abraded by accident,presents a new surface to the action ofthe elements, and this surface bears wit-ness ever afterwards to the antiquity orthe recency of the frac
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