We cannot get the least idea (even upon the full assumption of the theory of evolution) of the first man; but we can get a very tolerable idea of the Paulo-prehistoric man, if I may so say--of man as he existed some short time (as we now reckon shortness), some ten thousand years, before history began.
Bagehot suggests that we can form a reasonable idea of prehistoric humans who lived thousands of years before recorded history.
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