Pre-Adamite Man

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WHOEVER has wandered amid the stately ruins of Karnac, and El Uqusor, the palaces, tombs and dungeons, the massive statuary, pylons and hypaethral temples of the hoary old Land of the Pharoahs, of Moses and Thothmes, Joseph and Potiphar, must have felt, as I did, that the civilized world as we now know it, is very young indeed; and that its proudest structures are infantile compared with the massive and aged grandeur of other civilizations, upon the ashes and ruins of whjch the Present may be said to have been builded.