Daniel G. Brinton

“ This brings us late, very late, in paleolithic time, without an osteologic trace of any being who should properly be called man; for it would indeed be a travesty to apply that name to a creature without language, without religion, and without social compacts. ”

“ Man in the stone age.
In Science, iv. 469, Prof. Henry W. Haynes takes me up sharply in reference to an opinion I expressed about the epoch of the appearance of man, properly so called, in prehistoric time in Europe, and calls this opinion ‘a most amazing travesty of the views of Mortillet.’
Professor Haynes tells us that he gave a critical notice of Mortillet’s work, ‘Le préhistorique; antiquité de l’homme,’ in Science: it is probable, therefore, that he read that book. ”