The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-04-18

thought of being made the subject Of
such awfully profound spccuntions
But there is another dreadful tale to
be unfoldcd, though we feel how tame
is language, and how much we lack for
words to express in suitable terms our
utter adherence ana dctestaiion Of the
deed that was done. To speak Of the in.
famous transaction properly every word
ought TO be red hot tbun6erbolt. to
blast and to burn. Those Vupdal wo.
men who, prefcrring utility to scicnti.
tic discovery" basely burnt mp the
mans carbonaceous UNDERSTANDING I
And that, too, in all human probability
forno higher end than the low and world.
ly purpose of boiling their tea kettles !
Alas "to what vile uses came those
legs Sat lnst,"-after having come with
their venerable owner down from the
early geological ages to the present timcl
Surely the Wandering jaw couldn't
sncczc at the old fellow for acc. And
for varied fates," Old Ulysses was
.too< to him And then to be treated
with s1ch indignity
But the randoliSm Of the thing
"Think Of that Master Brook" To take
such wonder of science and convert it
into smoke and corbonic acid Verify.
the blazing Alcxandrian library couldn't
hold a candle to this barbarous deed
For what is burning up mons means of
knowledge compared with burning M
their very understandings Surely
no paper will again publish this shame.
full story without being " drapcd in sable
signs of deepest wo."
1t would, however, be wasting time TO
attempt to expose in full the crudties.
the stupidities and abeurlitics of the mr.
tcle in question. In truth we have had
some doubt whether the author was real.
ly some smattcrcr giving utterancc to
his profound lucubrations, or whether he
was not quite so much of simploton as
his theories would imply, and the whole
story was intended MS a hoax. If this is
what it was meant for, however, it isn't
very smart one. Indeed hoaxcs are
cheap things at best. Any fool can
make them. But it may have been the
design to expose geology to rid;cue
10y drawing caricature to be laughed
at. If so. however. the attempt was a
failure. For these WHO do not know
anything about geology, would see moth.
ing in the account to laugh at; and
might indeed believe tho main story.
While those who io know something Of
the science, would be little likely to be-
Influenced in their opinions by SO weak
an argument.
But assuming that a fossilizcd man
has been found as stated.-imbcddca in
sandstone, and with the head composed
of quartz, still all this would not afford
even the first presumption that the fossil
did not belong to modern times For
sandstoncs are constaatly forming even
at the present day and silica or quartz.
is found in countless forms. and in i'm.
measurable quantities, everywhere upor
The carth's surface.
But suprosing even tina. man MouHi
be found in fossil state, uncquivocally
belonging to an ago long previous to
that which has usually been assigned to
our racc,--still it is not to be concluded
that either geology or the Bible would
be overturned 10y it Geology is science
Of observation, and will be ever ready to
receive and classify any well.authenti-
Gated facts. And as regards the Bible,
the discovery Of human beings Of race
anterior to Adam would only lead to
the conclusion that our Maker had not
regarded a knowledge Of the fact as so
important to us that lie lad seen fit to
reveal it to Us in His Word TYRo.