CANON RAWLINSON ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."
SIR,—In your appreciative notice of the " Present-Day Tracts" issued by this Society, you say, with reference to Canon Raw- linson's tract on "The Antiquity of Man, Historically Consid- ered," that he goes "beyond his brief, when he says there are no traces of the primitive savage." "Such a very sweeping assertion as this," "opposed, as it seems to be, to what we know about the cave men end the implements found in the drift, seems some- what out of place." On looking at the tract again, p. 26, your reviewer will observe that Canon Rawlinson's statement is more limited. He says :—" The explorers who have dug deep into the Mesopotamian mounds and ransacked the tombs of Egypt, have come upon no certain traces of savage man in those regions which a wide-spread tradition makes the cradle of the human race." The italics are not Canon Rawlinson's. As you say, a tract on the subject (the age and origin of man, geologically considered) will shortly appear.—I am, Sir, &c., THE EDITOR OF THE " PRESENT-DAY " SERIES.
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