The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-23
Trscssot Prilneyal Man.

1t s yysif known to everybody, who has
either eyx- read aLy work on geology himself
or haa hears any either person speaking OF
what he has read or lbe subject, that III GER
tain parts fthe Garth. which at present are by
no means congenisH 10 the production OF such
animals, the rsus,ains OF the elephant, rhinoce-
ros hippopotamssA and other animals, have
hean Sound Ia grekn quaint ties, ana mat they
are supposed to have been there oeposlted ny
+he last great geological il uhdatloh. Espe-
rially have these remains beet found IN gfea'
quantities In the noT heas tern C rhef OF uAtce
aud the parts of England ad jacel Il thereto. As
the latitude of this region ranA es between
forty-seyea and fifty North, the >7onder has
reen, not at the richness or rarity the de-
post, but at the fact OF their having b N found
in such ar out-ot- the way place. The, AMI
mails are all known to natives of tropica ell
mates. Either, then. onT planet has slipps 4 SO
Tar. North as TO throw England and Fra 'ce
out Of their proper place ov forty or fifty d.
grees, or some flood swept Tie earth before thu
days of NOAH compared to which NoAH's
food was but an Insignificant driZzie, or these
animals wess indigenous, and form cd - face
Inc clint e in which they were placed differ
,np in that To- pect from their cognates ~ The
.orri1 zone. TIE last theory, we susreet,
Is the true one. We a.e we'll aware mat eS- |
.-sne antiquity is assigned to remains OF this
description, and that they have been made |
text by SONS, fseaH which 10 preach against the
truth Of the Mosaic Genesis. How well found
ed such arguments may be, 81 not Tor Us TO
determine We can only say, lat we have al
ways found the Mosaic account t.'c most ra-
tiouaI Of all others. so far as our appTss"riSi
goes. and that he who undertakes 10 "Te7-
throw the Scriptures. has Quite as much uPoa |
his hands as he is equal TO-
CrvIER the anatomist, was, we eeiieFe, the |
first that assigned 10 specimens OF TINS ehaf-
.c,sr an antiquity much gJea .ef" than that OF |
the Creation, as described by -noSHS. MS
,e,sou for doing SO was, that among all the
snornous deposits of them, AecoVeTeu IN va
riaus PARTS of the earth, NOT single vestiee
.an,ounaraneous man was found. Geolo- |
gt.,s argued, from this supposed antiquity,
.hat the world was made mi ch more than SIX
ousand wears ago. They lost sight, IN pnr-
.uinp their invest cations, OF the reason Wasch
Olivier had assigned for believing them an 10
rtor TO man. viz: that traces of man were
10 he found among them. They found other
arguments. of a totally different character, TO
prove that the Mosaic theory was wrong, and
that the world was created many ages before
The time assigned by Moses. Many eminently
pious men became convinced by the study OF
geology, aud endeayored to reconcile Its dis
cover.sa TO the book of Genesis, by supposing
that the siz days means six indefinite periods
of thousands, or, Il might be, millions, OF years
during which AImishtT power was preparing
the world for the habitat>ce OF man. Recent
discoveries seem TO show that rhey took a
great deal of unnecessary trouble 'estiges
OF man. contemporaneous with the rcpsains
Of elephants hippopotami, and other tropical
animals, and lying intermingled with them IN
vast heaps. have been discovered in that quar-
ter of France to which We have alluded. No
unman bones, 1t is true, have been discovered;
bat hatchete, knives, tools of various kinds
and warlike Instruments in abundance, exist
among the yestiges of the animals. They
made Of flint and the ablest biologists have
decided not only that they are OF human
workmanship, but that they are quite as old
az The remains among which they were de-
posted.
That the human race - Older than we are told
is by MOSES Not TT alt according TO our
view Of the subject. lie: II be recoliected that
GuyIgR inferred the an tiq uity or the remains,
from The fact OF their not being connected
with any yes;ige of the human race. Now
s--i ss-sisss Of the race ha We been discovered.
the only fair ifA-r.sse Is that the bones OF the
animals are NOT SO DIG z. CrVIER supposed
In other words, they are NO. elder tha, the
human race. The question, then, tom. upoS
the ags Of the human race, and for that we
have nc positive authority but the book OF
e'enesis. Nodiseo,ery OF any human remains
'Safing Traces ofan antiquity greater than SIX
eaousaha years so tar as we know, have ever
"een discovered. II there had been any such
traces, 10" interchangeable labors OF inadels
~odio most assarediy have ascertained their
existence. Its true, 1t was stated tina, in dig.
ging the foundation for the gas WORKS a, N.w
Orleans fossil remains OF u man sov.to.r
Thousand years old had been discoysrea r..
sge was computed by layers OF earth n,rs
thousand years being required according "a
esoIcgists, to form one layer and these re.
mains being found under six. This test, ".
pres ume, must have been regarded a. falla.
.!ous, for We have seen IL alluded TO nowhere
save IL lbs eoos sters IL first appeared, and
has never resn supports BY other diseoSes
rice. The aisopls ruth, scsafois. - CIR he,
t,ss u hat ~. .str1at sswa.sa srs aat ~ aid
~ lsYs Wits loeass. ~ hs, ~. tnst sess !,
s.v s!3es ,hsr .ks ssrtrisss Sass ~ H.