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"Perhaps I have conceded too much," he then instantly added,
fancying that he still saw the glimmerings of an argument through
another chink in the discourse. "Perhaps I have conceded too much, in
saying that this hemisphere is literally as old in its formation, as
that which embraces the venerable quarters of Europe, Asia, and
Africa."
"It is easy to say a pine is not so tall as an alder, but it would be
hard to prove. Can you give a reason for such a belief?"
"The reasons are numerous and powerful," returned the Doctor,
delighted by this encouraging opening. "Look into the plains of Egypt
and Arabia; their sandy deserts teem with the monuments of their
antiquity; and then we have also recorded documents of their glory;
doubling the proofs of their former greatness, now that they lie
stripped of their fertility; while we look in vain for similar
evidences that man has ever reached the summit of civilisation on this
continent, or search, without our reward, for the path by which he has
made the downward journey to his present condition of second
childhood.


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