The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
4 BORROWED CIVILIZATION.

The conviction is growing that nearly
all the civilization ofEurope and Amer>
ica il borrowed from other lands and
races. Our Indebtedness to Roman and
Grecian culture, and through those to the
Egyptians, has long been recognized.
The late discoveries of Dr.. Schliemann
prove that 1000 years before the time Of
Christ, the Trojans, presumably frag-
ment of Phoenician development, had
reached q high degree Of art and
| wealth; and their workings in bronze,
gold, crystal, etc., compare favorably
with those OF any modern people.
| It has long been believed by many
that the so-called inventions Of gonpow
der and the artot printing were borrow
/ ings from the Chinese. Itiscertdin that
they were in the possession Of the Chi
nese thousand years before their ap-
pearance in Europe. And now we have
this striking statement:
s.The interior Of China along the
course Of the Yank>tse>Kiang is a land
full of wonders. In one place piscicul-
tural nurseries line the banks tor nearly
fifty miles. All sorts OF inventions, the
| cotton gin included, claimed by Euro>
, peans and Americans, are 10 be found
, there forty centuries old. Plants. yield
ing drugs Of great value, without num-
Der. the familiar tobacco and potato
maize, white and yellow corn. and Other
hn syn1s srrs,n ~
, America, have been cultivated there
! from time immelnorial."
7 All this would 60 to confirm the theory
that land connection once existed be-
J. . tween Western America and Asia. Upol
this point the learned German. Peschal
says:
1T is possible that the first appearanc,
: Of man may have taken place in the In
!, dian Ocean itself. There at one TIM
existed great continent to which be
longed Madagascar and perhaps portion
Of Eastern Africa. the Maladives ant
!. Lacadives, and also the Island Of Cey
lon, which was never attached to India
perhaps, even. the Island OF Celebes, il
!, the far East, which possesses perplex
Q ing fauna with semi-African features
y This continent, which would correspon
2 with the Indian Ethiopia of Ptolemacus
: has been named Lemuria by the Eng
4 lish zoologist, Sclater, because il woul
= include the entire range Of the lemer:
y Such continent is required by anthro
= pology, tor we can then conceive ths
2 the inferior population Of Australia an
@ India. the Papl1ans of the East Indi
y Islands, and lastly the negroes, woul
q thus be enabled TO reach their presel
e abode by dry land. Such region woul
ls be also climatically suitable, for it lies
lu a1zone in which we now find the anthrt
eS pomorphous apes. The selection Of th
p locality Is. moreover. far more OrthOdO,
10 than it might At first glance appear, II
us we here find ourselves in the neighboI
" hood ofthe our enig1natic rivers of q
Scriptural Eden the Nile, the Euphrate
the Iigris, aud the Indus. By the gra'
II aal sabmergence Of Lemuria, the expu
= sion from Paradise would also be inc
ys orably accomplished. To this may
We added that ecclesiastical writers plac'
81 the detached Paradise. in S0utheaste
- Asia, and some explicitly on detach
= continent, and that the ingenious ma
ed Of the Middle Ages exhibit the first p
[c~ rental pair on land surrounded BY 81
he living beyond India. This explains BIZ
!. Columbus, affer the discovery Of S0u
America. taking il for an insolar con
On nent, lying seufheast Of the mouth of |
;, Ganees, wrote home 70 Spain: .sTb,
ver lfe hero great indications suggCsti
=. lthe proximity Of the earthly P1radi
fnr mt OnlY does II CorrGenond in maj