(1) Man must have seen the entire elevation or at least the completion of practically all the great mountains of the world, such as the Rockies, Andes, Alps, Himalayas, etc.
(2) The relative distribution of land and water surface has—since Man's advent as commonly stated—changed completely. The land and water have practically changed places over the greater part of the globe.
(3) Man lived while the Arctic regions had a mild soft climate, and he lived to see these conditions so suddenly changed that some of his dumb brute companions were caught in the waters and frozen so speedily that their flesh has remained untainted. Other considerations show this change of climate to have affected the whole globe.
The lesson to be drawn from this as the last fact in the line of cumulative evidence here presented, will be considered in the following chapter.
[CHAPTER XIII]
INDUCTIVE METHODS
In the First Part of this book I tried to examine into the facts and methods which are commonly supposed to prove that there has been a succession of life on the globe. We found that this life succession theory has not a single fact to support it; that it is not the result of scientific research, but wholly the product of an inventive imagination; that no one kind of fossil has even been proved or can be proved to be intrinsically older than another, or than Man himself; and hence that a complete reconstruction of geological theory is imperatively demanded by our modern knowledge.
In the Second Part I have brought out the following additional facts:
1. The abnormal character of much of the fossiliferous deposits.
2. A radical and world-wide change of climate.