age.<59> The committee appointed by the British Association to explore
the Victoria Cave, near Settle, urge this point very strongly in their
final report of 1878.<60> To this report Mr. Dawkins, a member of the
committee, records his dissent, but in his last great work he freely
admits that man was living in England during the Glacial Age, if he did
not, in fact, precede it.<61>

Mr. Skertchley, of the British coast survey, in 1879,<62> announced
the discovery in East Anglia of Paleolithic, implements underlying the
bowlder clay of that section. Mr. Geikie justly regards this as a most
important discovery.<63>

Finally Mr. Dawkins, in his address as President of the Anthropological
section of the British Association, in 1882, goes over the entire
ground. After alluding to the discovery of paleolithic implements in
Egypt, India, and America, he continues: "The identity of implements
of the River Drift hunter proves that he was in the same rude state of
civilization, if it can be called civilization, in the Old and the New
World, when the hand of the geological clock struck the same hour. It is
not a little strange that this mode of life should have been the same in
the forests of the North, and south of the Mediterranean, in Palestine,
in the tropical forests of India, and on the western shores of the
Atlantic." This, however, is not taken as proving the identity of race,
but as proving that in this morning-time of man's existence he had
nowhere advanced beyond a low state of savagism. Mr. Dawkins then
continues: "It must be inferred from his wide-spread range that he must
have inhabited the earth for a long time, and that his dispersal took
place before the Glacial epoch in Europe and America. I therefore feel
inclined to view the River Drift hunter as having invaded Europe in
preglacial times, along with other living species which then appeared."
He also points out that the evidence is that he lived in Europe during
all the changes of that prolonged period known as the Glacial Age.<64>

Sir John Lubbock also records his assent to these views. He says on
this point: "It is, I think, more than probable that the advent of the
Glacial Period found man already in possession of Europe."<65>

In our own country Prof. Powell says: "It is now an established fact
that man was widely scattered over the earth at least as early as the
beginning of the Quaternary period, and perhaps in Pliocene times."<66>

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