Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-03-11
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Astronomy and chemr try teach the
same lesson - geology. The great
underlying ides Of creation, in little
things - well - big ones, il that Of
progress. Man, in the MoDgol,an, Ne
gro and Malay races, has advanced
from . brutal, black savage, and . re.
voting cannibalism, TO the condition
IN which We now behold him in the
more civilized examples. Individual
races may have been lost, or they may
remain to-day what they were twenty
Thousand years ago, and more; when
mighty geological revolutions were
gong on around them, before the DRIFT
period, and the glacial epoch Of the
Sierra Nevada, and before the age Of
the mastodon and elephant But apart
'from these exceptions the rule OF prog.
rcss prevailed, and the human race IN
its entirety had b.ttered itself, and ad-
vanccd to spiritual rank only little
lower than that OF the angels The
unity of mankind, in the sense Of ali
races epringing from one and the same
source. il not correct. A fossil skull
was dug up IN California 1873 feet be-
low the surface, from bed of fery
ashes and scorie deposited by the vol.
canoes OF the Sierra Nevada and from
the bestial char ,cter of thus sknll. and
others which have been found in the
Oldest deposits, it is evident there were
races, in that primordial time, winch
did not belong to the Caucasian, who
are "less developed, indeed, than the
savages of Australia" The less pro.
gresnve races have sprung from these
dark men.
tn Grade sf kl< nh.x Rsees.-But
there was another and almost infinitely
greater and nobler race graded in the
kast, and dourish,ng 5000 years ago.
in spleadsc civilixstion, on the banks
OF the Ganges, With the woudertuL
flexible and comprehensive Ssnscr,t
language to give expression TO their
Thought It = to he East, therefore.
that we must look ~ the origin Of pro.
gressive fnAn-the very coil whereof
u seminal and liceatious-thc s(Ieiss
gsstiss, - DeQuincsy calls it, Of man.
kind, where man ID . weed, and Mon.
9oiian man especially, the Chinese and
JaPs, are invested with terror and 1
mystery akin to that which is inspired
BY the dread names Of the 0anees and
kuphrates. Bat here, too, snrnnR the
Aryan race, which has taken the lead
ir conquest and civilization upon this
planet. o1G
Or1iss! laasjaSxts n Ews,s.-The
original inhabitants Of Europe were
cannibeas, - proclaimed-in iSlO-by
8oucher dc Perths in his lst.e.,t:,
Csksl.ss q Astsdilsssasaee ssThev wao.
d > precarious warfare with the cave
hon, the cave.bear, the hyena and the
reanocefos. Pt 00essed OF stens weap-
ons only, and destitute Of docks and
herds, they were saya9es not unlike.
perhaps, the most barbarous OF eur
Norsa American lndiane. sss h i
evident that the Infancy of our raee
was prolonged through an immenss
period Of -time-aad 10 eoms PARTS Of
the globe Il is not even now Aaished.r
I~A,Ass Zsssfsay n xss- MAJ is
proved, by The discoveries Of scientific
men, 70 b Of vast antiquity, and vas
far anterior to the historic age.-Ths
Aryai's-the happy white races-st
shown BY the researches Of Sanscrit
echolars, were from the first noble
breed ct men, possessed OF brain OF
enormous capacity, ~ compared with
the tribes around them. These were
the men who tanned the beas Q intro.
dacsd agriculture, Aocks and herds
and tho arts, sciences and literature,
extractlng metals from their ores, and
investing machinery. Az the geolo.
gist - justified IN inferSlng the canni.
balism OF the men Of the DRIFT period
trom the discovery OF hum . bones
split 70 extract the marrow, 90 the phi-
loloyist who finds that the word which
in SeAacrit corresponds 70 our word
daughter, means Ssilkss, o. nllkm,id,
and that iAther in Sanscris b oynony-
nous with psstsr, is justified IN inter.
ring that at the time when some Of
their oomnaonest and moGe nscesaary
words were coined, tho Aryau roe
owned herds Of cattle, and used then
for domestic purposes maaiiest
commencement Of civilisati0n. @
N kb1iIsss . ~ Avyss 1ase-WAs
st 6ret ( a'wofship Of the hsavsnly bod.
lex bat bask aot Ill tkts, ~ :hsif
worship 81 thu suu. and NOON, ! nd
otars, Of the storm and the lightuiue