The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-07

of the earth, but didn't, because this sam
earth Of ours happened to be out of his wa.
when he came down and BY. Next was
THE AGE OF WATER,
when the order came Let the waters unde
the heaven be gathered together unto on
place" fit representative Of this age wa
Neptune, who aided Jove "with his auxiliar,
waters" to destroy the world by deluge
He came in his chariot, drawn by four Sc
horses.
Following him, heralded BY Tritons float
ing on the waves on which she rode, came
Naiad, beautiful in figure and form.
After the waters had been "gathered to
gether unto one place and the dry land ap
pe.-ed, on the morning Of the fifth day, the
order came, "Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the living creatures that hath life
and fowl that may fl above the earth in the
open ornament of heaven; and then came
the other order: Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle and
creeping things and beasts of the earth, after
his kind" This was
THE CREATION
OF fish and fowl OF beasts and cattle, when
''the waters fell to b3 inhabited by the
smooth fishes, the earth recsived the wild
beasts and The Yielding air the birds. What
more flung thing to typify this age than the
figure Of Deuc dion, he who, with mis- wife. as
related by Ovid in his metamorphoses, re-
peopled the ear b after the deluge by casting
stones behind them.
"They 90 down. and they veil their heads
and ungird their garments, and cast stone s,
as ordered, behind their footsteps The
stones (who could have believed it, but that
antiquity is wi 'ness OF the thing y began to
lay aside their hardness and their stiffness, by
degrees to become soft and when softened,
to assume new form. Presently after, when
they were grown larger, a milder nature, too,
was conferred on them, SO that some shape
OF man might be seen in them, yet though
but imperfect and if from the marble
commenced to be wrought, not suffi clent y
distinct, and very like to rough statue. Yet
that part of them which was humid with
moisture, and earthly was turned into por-
tions adapted for the use of the body That
which is solid, and cannot be bent Is changed
into bones; that which WAS just now vein,
still remains under the same name And In
little time, By the interposition Of the gods
above, the sto1es thrown by the hand Of he
man, took the shape of man, and the female
race was renewed by the throwing of the wo-
man."
Following him came landscape, on which
were creeping things" aud "beasts Of the
earth"
Then came
THE STONE AGE
For a century or more naturalists and
philosophers have talked and argued abou,
the existence of a man before Adam, and
have talked and argued about the unity Of the |
races. |
AdelunR Blumencach, Button, Voltaire, |
Darwin, JAS Cowles Prichard, John Charles
Hall, Pickering, Fontaine aud others, have ar
gued pro and con. With their arguments we
have nothing to do. The Lord of Mis-.
rule evidently believed in pre-Adamite man,
and agreed with Agassiz when he said
Z" If by the unity of the races Of man be
meant nothing more than that all mankind
were endowed with one common nature, in.
tellectual and physical, derived from the
Creator of all men-were under the same moral
government OF the universe, and sustained |
81 milar relations to the Deity, side with
those who maintain the unity of the races. 1t ,
il quite different question whether the diff
fere mt races of man were descended from diff
ferent stocks and l regard this position as I
fully proved by Divine revelation. The jew /
ish history was the history, not of divers q
races, but Of single race Of mankind; but ]
The existence of other races is often incidental
y alluded to and distinctly implied, If not
absolutely asserted, in the sacred volume" d
The Lord Of M,srule believed that this pre- f
Adamite man was half man, halt monkey--a D
'ort Of nondescript; and he presented sam i
pie Of the man of that age according to his Il
dea This was savage clad in SKINS carry Y
ng stone club. Close behind came other y
representatives of this age, two women and Il
q An in front OF q cave hewn in q solid rock | K
ver which rock crawled serpents, liz ards and
ther creeping things. m
Toe l. Jrd Of Mlsrule also believed in r,
THE PRIMEvAL MAN. Ia
nd his Idea OF this m IN was a savage some la
that more OF the shape and appearance of
ne present man than the pre- Atlantic man s
le used spears to kill the wild animals that "
we'd in that age, and had no other convey Q,
nee for them but his back.
He gave type of this man. 70
" He was barbarian, and low in intellect o.
pl development of small brains, a retreat ia
lg forehead and projecting jaws, with grea
ridges, the result, perhaps, Of the VI
arlness which ne Was com pelled to exercise. IN
le was short in stature, but robust and broad fl
,ouldered for the exposures to which he vas al
lbjscted sifted out the we Ak and diseased "
The Lord of Mlsrule also believed that this O,
AN lived in huts raised over water, and he Of
I'VE a representation of one OF these huts,
it'll three Of the people Of those times til
man and two women, in front of j..
The trees selected for the piles during
70 stone age, from three to six inches In til
ameter, were feled by stone axes, and the III
ID TO be driven into the ground was sharp WI
led by burning. Z,
=" The piles were embedded in mud from we
lie to five feet, but where the bottom was an
lrd, stones were brought aud filed in form Ia
6 what are known as 'tenevieres' The ma
'per end OF the piles projected probably m,
om four to six feet above the surface of the
'ter, and upon these was laid platform, CHI
rving as foundation of the hut 1t is sup by
'sed that as many as three hundred of these :
Its were grouped together giving shelter Ia
many a. thousand people, with narr w VII
useway e,ting with the shore"
nj. Lartet, whose discoveries in ethnography art
We placed him in the front rank Of ob- is
rvers, divides the period of the prehistoric he
an into two ages and subdivides the first IA,
9 into three epocns and the second into his
q. az;
Ephochs--1. Stone Age his
That of the extinct animals, such as the Iro
,mmoth and cave bear
q That of the migrated existing animals viii
Mi IN al rtnpa ann,hN