, 1876-03-11


(The speaker described the Mound. builders
as race belonging to the x ologic record
a. much as mastodons, and as far removed
from the Indian in physical features as the
negro We cannot k NV by how many years
they are separated from u.s. An ol'ier r'cor'l
than that of the mounds is preserved in the
gravel of uld river hanks A river writes
its own history. (The lecturer drew an TN
bsyo river cure. "a spwbi hw river
begins in chain oil lakes, AMI how its for.
saken hanks hold rrgist OF pnsl climates
M ami ulls an IN. He sh owed that men
had lived in En!lnnl aud France wh the
climate WAS as cold rs Ltpland or Siberia.
Caves too, have their own history.
The stalagmlte registers the year, A thin
band represents the drip OF each year. (The
speaker drew Brazilian cav, md took his
audtence down through II succrssio of
slr!agm t. leaves, restoring II numhsr rf TX
tnrt armals whose ruins he touna IN the
way--tloNn through 10000 lav,s to nm oil
c,ve.ilor an which II ID fnn'o htd found
flint tools hit by man, Tint cave had
been the dwrlln place OF man 900 years
ago But in the unwritrn annals of our
rtre q. 600 wears are ~ II watch in the night.
Let us SEE what au English cave is telling
us. (Tnp speaker drew the plan Of the
great Victoria cave which English science
Tor the past six years has been exploring
Over the entrance tn the cave is u jntling
cliff. Fragments OF this cliff keep falling
down and forming talus below. Under
two ert uf this tnlus we find implements
dropped by the Romans sixteen hundred
cal, Y.h - ~
the time of Roman possession We find i've
feet of talus containing stone implements
,lropp Il hy prehistoric men. We have no
reason to suppose th't thecliif drcayr't more
rapidly in earlier times than It has Il Cayed
through the hat sixteen hundred years
TIE five feet of stone are tans then would
nprrs mt 1000 years Now below this Layer
0i five irrt we pass down through thirk
ness Of nineteen tie,, the chip.'in time
from the ovcrhanging cliff At the same
rae ri decay, nineteen feet would represent
1890 wears. Til, ,olus at the caves mnu'h,
taking the lasr 1900 years as our measure,
will take UP back something more than 20,
900 wears. Under these beds of talus we
strike. the glacial DRIFT, ice.horne and lee
scratrh"d ullis an pebbles, the in
aerit'd records Of m are when great part
OF nnrthrrn Europe was un'lcr ice, when
utmost lll %. North America north at Mary.
Il,nt ssns un,ler sheet Of ice Now and
then during that
Lone AGE OF THE REIGN OF IcE,
the or zzly hrar took refuge in the cave and
left its homes mingled with III" glacial drilt
3 low this britt. AMI Ilt'r thin the driit, is
"A bed of cave.ear b. hIding the remains at
the horse, the pig, the reindeer, and the re
mains of mln. III l'w"r AMI still ol 'r.iS
bed of cave earth aud stalagmiIe holding
the remains of the hycnn. the rhinnreros,
the appropriateness, the primeval elephant,
and ,hr /. IN ,ins of mnn That cave was the
n'md. ot man ages before the age of icr.
At tile clos,' Of the Ice nge great phri 6f
England was submerged. A great part oi
northern Eur p'. p,rts of Ashland hrgr
area Ot America sank beneath the sca. Oar
grent lakes were then parts OF the ocean.
Man has liv d through double deluge of
ice and ocean. Over all the earth, amt in
every form of religion, he hts carried with
him legends Of the water deluge, far
travelled ray If truth.
The greatest geoosic event in the annals
of the globe was the advent of man. AMI
be- came in iulhllmcnt of geologic law. IT
we search the rocks we shall find the fossil
rCrDrd telling that within the larger cycle
nt progression is another cy;'e OF progress
ION. When the fish came the crustacean
begin to w,ne. Wh'n the m,mnd came
the reptile lape'i into such drgraded types
rs the s,rpent. Now tim CAM when all
over rhe gIO u the mammal lynaSJies began
to wanc. The bIoo in the veins OF nature
seemed % be drying up. Animal life hav-
ng reached its z NTH. WAS ON the down.
wnr,l curve. From thu law written IN thr
leaves Of rock We must int r that life some,
where WAS on the upward cu.ye. Man bad
come. At first h. WAS
THE LEyRL ANTAGONIST OF ANIMALS
around him But som thing Wa III hln
which was not in them. He must increase.
Tley must decrease. Already in his heart
were hopes Of immortality. A naked. flint
armed warrior he locked around on tIe Tel
uge Of ice, aud spann'd with an iris ot b 'pe
the great 'leluge Of w,ter', AMI the dark
valley ct death. At the door OF thr t0nl'
sh,' heart Of youn humanity voiced its mo I
cherished hope tThr speaker drew Gi'vr
in sonth.rn France and showed that 1t bad
,hern used as finrr ] vault while the rrin-
deer and mamnmth were still in southern
Europe. He showed from certain gifts to
the dead that something in the dead man
WIS tlion sht tU he not drad) Within the
jaws nj that primal tomb we light again our
torch OF hope ami take cheer. Men may
groyel hut man aspires, In Edinberg, IN the
lecture rom Ut II milton, the speaker had
seen the great mans motto, golden thought
written on thu. wall in golden letters:
On earth there's nothing great but man
In man there's nothing great but mind.