The period of man's past life upon our planet, which has been fixed by the universal Church, "always, everywhere, and by all," is thus perfectly proved to be insignificant compared with those vast geological epochs during which man is now known to have existed.( 188) (188) As to the evidence of man in the Tertiary period, see works already cited, especially Quatrefages, Cartailhac, and Mortillet.

For an admirable summary, see Laing, Human Origins, chap.viii.See also, for a summing up of the evidence in favour of man in the Tertiary period, Quatrefages, History Generale des Races Humaines, in the Bibliotheque Ethnologique, Paris, 1887, chap.iv.As to the earlier view, see Vogt, Lectures on Man, London, 1864, lecture xi.

For a thorough and convincing refutation of Sir J.W.

Dawson's attempt to make the old and new Stone periods coincide, see H.W.Haynes, in chap.

vi of the History of America, edited by Justin Winsor.