Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-06-16
llE AGE OF THE WORLD.

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TIE AGE OF THE WORLD.
Tho o 7ving ingenious reply to the usual geolog-
ical Argument in relation to the time employed IN
bnu LAX .r earth to its present physical maturity,
Is iioa, trtcts for the New Times. No. 2, by j. J.
Cru Wilkinson the well known translator OF Swed-
cdborgs great works on Physiology:
According to this science (and have no wish 70
speak with dislespcct ola branch Of practical knoWl-
Edge so useful and so rich in tacts) 1t Is dhcult to
assign too long duration to the existence OF the
planet Once cmanc pated'trom the lterally OF Gen
enesist delights to heap millions upon millions of
years as though time were a mere abstraction and
cost science nothing: andb number of water-marl<
and deposits it fixes the epoch Of the world with as
knowing air as ii it were judging of a horses age
by his teeth. . Ahundrel stra-
II would take long for deposition now therefore
they would require the same time in the earliest ages
OF the world Such is the postulatum OF geology.
How would this logic look ii were to try it up
on any of those series of which we know both the
beginning and end and where, If we commit an En-
ror we have the advantage Of detecting it! Let us
make an experiment fthc kind with human be-
ing, with youth of twenty years old. Now the
problem shall be to find his age from his height, ii
wing the height OF his last years growth at half an
inch. We will suppose for the sake of round
number, that he is six feet high Proceeding then
furnishes the whole rule of his development, and
not merely that part Of the same which applies be
tween the ages OF ~ and 20. we have only 10 say.
by the rule OF three. that if he grows half inch IN
year, he will grow - inches or six feet. in
Ia years whence it turns out that the youth OF 20
ought, III science to be more than en- times 20.
Surprising again that he crows quarter of an inch
between 20 aud2l the same method will prove that
instead of having merely reached his majority. he
hoe. -
take him between ? and - the probability is that
we shall find no increase al ALI and in strict keep
In% with our geological logic we may now now IN
fer (What many philosopher has not hestatcd TO
liner OF the world) that youth is not only old
er than the Wa dcing Jew, but in point Of fact has
existed, as the glib saying is, from all eternity
Conquest and .2,llerai0n.-We begin
to find trcqucntnotices of marriages between
our countrymcn in Mexico and the senorilas
OF that cactus growing, sunny cline. This
IS perhaps the best mode of conquest, but a
sour bachelor friend suggests that it is the
very reverse OF conquering a peace.
Mdin10 Debf.-Acting for the Bondhold-
crs, Mr.. Charles Butler on Thursday, sur
rendered to the Agent of the State Of India
m in New York, sir millions three h2D1-
drM mi.My-thrcc Momo0d doiiorS of the
State Bonds for conversion into the new
Sat. ANIL Can. Stocks. THIS amam, o>-
coeds by nearly oao m.Uun .Hc require
mcnts Of the Law, and viii be iarg " IN
creased by the LIST Of July, as the holders
are coming in daily.
During the months of March and April,