Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-08
Editor ESSEX County HernLd :


In reply to your note appended to
an article of my contribution in the
last issue of the HERALD, entitled,
Tine Worlds Age,"I would say that
this theory, like all others, will find
its opponents, Gas did the theory of
Calico when he asserted that the
earth was round,) until thoroughly
proved. Bayard Taylor is by 10
means the originator of this theory,
nor is any one man the originator of
it. 1t is simply a deduction made
from the science Of Geology, when
we acknowledge that the materials of
which the earth is composed must
have existed in one form or another,
for more than six thousand years if
we acknowledge that this is so, we
must acknowledge that to have put
these materials into shape for the use
of man, must have required a space of
more than six common days, and that
the word day, as used in the first
chapter of Genesis is only afgurative
expression for long space of time.
If the world itself is more than six
thousand years old, why then should
not its occupancy by man occupy
space of more than six thousand
years.
The Bible does not say chat this
could not have been so, but rather
leads us to think that this was so
for in speaking of the creation of man,
in the first chapter of Genesis, it says
in the Goth verse, "Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness" and
in the 9th verse $50 God created
man in his own image, in the image
of God created he lin; male and
female, created he Them" This crea-
ton was on the last, or sixth day.
Neither does the Bible speak of the
Garden of Eden until the eighth
verse of the second chapter, where it
says, "And the Lord God planted {
garden eastward in Eden, and there
he gut the man whom he had form
ed" This might be interpreted that
the man whom the Lord put into the
Garden was the same whom the Lord
had created upon the sixth day. But
, the Bible speaks of q second creation
of man in the seventh verse of the
) second chapter where it says, And
| the Lord God formed man of the dust
: of the ground, and breathcd into his
J nostrils the breath of life, and man
| became a living SOUL"
In speaking of the first creation, the
Bible says, finale and female created
he them )" but of the second creation
it speaks only at first of the creation
of man; the creation of woman came
afterward Gen. II, 22.) Biologists
/ find the remains Of man in the NAM
MILAN age or what would correspond
, to the sixth day in the first chapter OF
, Genesis; but toward the close of the
mamillian age, at the time Of the
Glacial or Drift epoch, at time when
it was impossible for man to live, will
account for the destruction of man
: which was created on the sixth day.
5 The creation of man, again, on or af-
ter the seventh day, or the creation
. of Adam, must have happened soon
after the close of the Terrace epoch.
| If we take tie Darwinian theory,
that the ape and monkey are the pro-
genitors of the human race, we must
: then say that Adam was the first per-
feet man in that line of descent; and
if so, why not allow that there could
have been some people in the line Of
d scent between the ape and Adam,
: although not perfect, but so nearly SC
that their minds would be susceptible
Il Of civilization, and that these people
u were settled in Egypt and on the
j. coast round about the Mediterranean
S Sea, for by no means is Egypt thu
G only place where remains of this an
!, Gent civilization is traced, and tha
e They built the temples, etc., upor
0 which they recorded the hieroglyphic'
S which, when they have been traced
II out and translated, have led Learned
h men to come to the conclusion thai
# the world has been Inhabited more
a than six thousand years or we nigh
y place back the creation of Adam TIVE
it or three thousand years, for in max
If ingup the chronology from the crea
a ton of Adam to The birth of Christ
s we cannot make all the time perfec
le connections, and consequently have
er to guess good many times, anC
lie nothing would be easier than to guess
!. wrong Old such uncertainties. AnC