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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1860., [Electronic resource], Disturbance at Harvard College. (search)
n goes, and that he who undertakes to ever-throw the Scriptures, has quite as much upon his hands as he is equal to. Cuvier, the anatomist, was, we believe, the first that assigned to specimens of this character an antiquity much greater than thld was made much more than six thousand years ago. They lost sight, in pursuing their investigations, of the reason which Cuvier had assigned for believing them anterior to man, viz: that no traces of man were to be found among them. They found othee is older than we are told it is by Moses! Not at all, according to our view of the subject. Let it be recollected that Cuvier inferred the antiquity of the remains, from the fact of their not being connected with any vestige of the human race. Noast vestiges of the race have been discovered, the only fair inference is that the bones of the animals are not so old as Cuvier supposed.--In other words, they are not older than the human race. The question, then, turns upon the age of the human r