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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN BY CHARLES LYELL.
EVERYMAN
I WILL GO WITH THEE
& BE THY GUIDE
IN THY MOST NEED
TO GO BY THY SIDE.

EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS.
SCIENCE.

LYELL'S ANTIQUITY OF MAN
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY R.H. RASTALL, M.A., F.G.S.

HOC SOLUM SCIO QUOD NIHIL SCIO.

THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN
BY
SIR CHARLES LYELL, BT., F.R.S., ETC. ETC.
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT & SONS LTD.
AND IN NEW YORK BY E.P. DUTTON & CO.

INTRODUCTION.
The "Antiquity of Man" was published in 1863, and ran into a third
edition in the course of that year. The cause of this is not far to
seek. Darwin's "Origin of Species" appeared in 1859, only four
years earlier, and rapidly had its effect in drawing attention to
the great problem of the origin of living beings. The theories of
Darwin and Wallace brought to a head and presented in a concrete
shape the somewhat vague speculations as to development and
evolution which had long been floating in the minds of naturalists.
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