Lat., vol.ii, p.

1033).

For Augustine's view, see Cuvier, Recherches sur les Ossements fossiles, fourth edition, vol.ii, p.

143.
In the sixteenth century especially, weight began to be attached to this idea by those who felt the worthlessness of various scholastic explanations.

Strong men in both the Catholic and the Protestant camps accepted it; but the man who did most to give it an impulse into modern theology was Martin Luther.