. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. 164 FACTS AND FANCIES. the ends of the long bones, point in this direc- tion, and seem to indicate a slow maturity and great length of life in this most primitive race. The picture would be incomplete did we not add that in Fran
. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. 164 FACTS AND FANCIES. the ends of the long bones, point in this direc- tion, and seem to indicate a slow maturity and great length of life in this most primitive race. The picture would be incomplete did we not add that in France and Belgium, in the immediately succeeding or reindeer age, these gigantic and magnificent men seem to have been superseded by a feebler race of smaller stature and with shorter heads; so that we have, even in these oldest days, the same con- trasts so plainly perceptible in the races of the North of Europe and the North of America in historical times (Figure 10). It is -further significant that there are some indications to show that the larger and nobler race was that which inhabited Eu-ope at the time of its greatest elevation above the sea and greatest horizontal extent, and when its fauna included many large quadrupeds now extinct. This race of giants was thus in the possession of a greater continental area than that now existing, and had to contend with gigantic brute rivals for the possession of the world. It is also not improbable that this early race became extinct in Europe in con- sequence of the physical changes which oc- curred in connection with the subsidence which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1820-1899. Philadelphia : American Baptist Publication Society
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