Far be it from me to say that in more elemental times such things could not have been.

The condition belongs to the geologic age--the great birth and growth of the world, when natural forces ran riot, when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival.

That such a time existed, we have evidences in geology, but there only; we can never expect proofs such as this age demands.

We can only imagine or surmise such things--or such conditions and such forces as overcame them.".