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>
lea is 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 tof Phoenician development, had
reached a high degree of art and
wealth; and their workings in bronze,
gold, crystal, etc., compare favoraoly
with those OF any modern people.
1t has long been believed by many
that the so-called inventions of gunpow-
der and the artot printing were borrow
ings from the Chinese. It is certain that
thew were in the possession OF the Chi
nese a thousand years before their ap-
pearance in Europe. And now we have
this striking statement:
1.-The interior Of China along the
course of the Yank >tse>Kiang is land
full of wonders In one place plscicul-
tural nurseries line the banks tor nearly
fifty miles. All sorts of inventions. tie
cotton gin included, claimed by Euro
. peans and Americans, are 10 be foun6
, 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 othe
i, stalks belieged to be indi gineous t.
, America. have been cultivated their
! from time immelnorial."
7 All this would 60 to confirm the theor,
!. that land connection once existed be
; tween Western America and Asia. Upo
this point the learned German. Peschal
J says:
1T is possible that the first appearance
: 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 an
: Lacadives, and also the Island Of Cey
I lon, which was never attached to India
4 perhaps, even. the Island OF Celebes, i
!, the far East, which possesses perple1
q ing fauna with semi-African features
L This continent, which would correspon
Q with the Indian Ethiopia Of Ptolemacu
l. has been named Lemuria by the Eng
= lish zoologist, Sclater, because IL woul
'1 include the entire range OF the lemer
J Such continent is required by anthr'
: biology, tor we can then conceive TIL
o the inferior population of Australia ar
20 India. the Papuans of the East Ind
J, Islands, and lastly the negroes, wou
"a thus be enabled to reach their prese
1e abode by dry land. Such a region won
IS be also dramatically suitable, for it lies
~ azone in which we now find the anthr
. pomorphous apes. The selection OF th
=, locality is, moreover. far more orthodo
10 than it might at first glance appear, i
ut we here find ourselves in the neigh5o
ne hood of the our eniglnatic rivers OF t
Scriptural Eden-the Nile, the Euphrat<
the Iigris, aud the Indus. BY the gra
aal submergence of Lemuria, the exp,
- sion from Paradise would also he inc
Us orably accomplished. To this may
we added that ecclesiastical writer's plac
,w the detached Paradise in Southeaste
:. Asia, and some explicitly on detach
- continent, and that the ingenious ma
cd of the Middle Ages exhibit the first I
[c~ rental pair on land surrounded by 8
he living beyond India. This explains h
- Columbus, after the discovery OF So,
-. America. taking it for an insular COZ
ION nent, lying southeast OF the mouth OF
g. Gauges, wrote home to Spain: 9Th
yer are here great indications suggest
;ba the proximity of the earthly Par2d
- for not only does It correspond in ma
ny ematical position with the opinions
our the holy and learned theologians. but
i've ether signs concur to make it prob 81