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— Early beliefs regarding “thunder-stones” — Theories of Mercati and Tollius regarding them — Their identification with the implements of prehistoric man — Remains of man found in caverns — Unfavorable influence on scientific activity of the political conditions of the early part of the nineteenth century — Change effected by the French Revolution of to — Rallying of the reactionary clerical influence against science — Boucher de Perthes’s contributions to the knowledge of prehistoric man — His conclusions confirmed by Lyell and others — Cave explorations of Lartet and Christy — Evidence of man’s existence furnished by rude carvings — Cave explorations in the British Islands — Evidence of man’s existence in the Drift period — In the early Quaternary and in the Tertiary periods GOTO NEXT CHAPTER - SCIENCE VS. THEOLOGY INDEX & SEARCH
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