Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-06-07
Taking the Ninteenth Century
Down a Peg.

cNiact 'He ioioWiiiS passaSe'
Men dill as many intellectual feats
2oO0 and 5000 years ago as are done in
the present time. If it be true that man
was only an improved gorilla. we don't
find that he bore a greater resemblance to
it III n than now; for his own part, he
believed there were more monkeys now
than then, and possibly the gorilla might
not so much represent the race from which
we sprang as the destiny to which we are
hasteaing. Abraham he believed TO be as
thorough bred gentleman as any in the
nineteenth century Jacob as good man
OF business as they would find on the
Liverpool Exchange; while Joseph was
statesman, and Moses legislator, worth
great deal more in their time than all our
lords, commons, and town councils put to-
geiher.
we think we do all things on grand
scale, and cockney will boast that the
largest theatre IN London will hoil four
thousand people; thirty thousand would
scarcely have hiied the coliseum OF Rome
d. 0eorges Hall, Liverpool Is justly re-
garded as very magnificent building, but
Is ohiy repfoduction OF very little
OIL Oh the pa'hs OF Diocie'iah, winch were
heariy q quarter OF mile square, the
whole structure belng great deal larger
than our house OF Parliament. Some
moderhs said II Inc people OF the ancient
times could revisit the earth, they would
be very much astonished. lie had nc
doubt they would but he would be very
sorry IL they d'd' IN case they should only
laugh at US. Possibly our great grand
fathers, who lived IN that stupldest OF al
centuries, the eighteenth, would be aston
lshed, but not the men OF two thousan'
i years ago.
We thought we had made great pro
gress IN sanitary science, but be believe
i we were at a disadvantage compared wit
the ancients. ln home alone there wer
S00,0oO public baths, and it never ha
more than half the popu alton of LondoI
They had hot and col! vapor baths, an
something like our Turkish baths /; an
what was better still. the people constant
ly used them. We boast of our civil en-
gineering, but it was questionable if
had advanced much since the time whe
the Romans bum their aqueducts, whicl
were carried over valleys, supported OF
thousands OF arches, or tnnneled for mile
'n.ous' 'ne so'iu rocN' Wiiiie me srea'ss
sc'en'iiic sA'ii was required 70 give 'h'
supply 'ne proper siaae
mere was great tax ABOUT INA
Wohderlui triumph OF selius, bringing th'
water OF Loch Marine 10 uiasSow, bu
me quahtiiy OF wafer delivered % every
ihhapi'ant Oh Aome was Ten limes me wa
ter suppiied 10 LONDON an aDundah
supply OF wafer was a specsai Characters
nc oi a'ciFh' cities We o''e'i reiu
'he ihhaoi'ahls Oh oeseiSed cuy suhefins
iioii munger put rarely ever, IRON
lhirs'' Aho 'uere was no osercfowdiiis'
Nihesah contained eoo'oVo inlao''ah's
our the popuia'ioh oi LONDON was' Tor its
area, hVe Tunes as aehse as 1hal oil Nihe
van. Inc ahc'en's ana not allow the dea'
10 DC buried wihin the walls OF theI
ciiies-a praclice ontS pegihnins 70 p'
aoolished with US.
In point oil cleanliness, also, they were
more careful than we are. de read the
other day of some people taking cholera
from washing the clothes of persons who
had died OF that malady. According t.
the Mosaic law these clothes should have
been buried. Moses would not allow peo.
pie 10 live in houses that were unhealthy,
but it was no use turning the people oui
and allowing the house to stand he knew
/ people would live in it if it remained, and
SO he said: Down with every stick and
stone of it,