The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-22
WAS ADAM AN AMERICANA
DIR. Rudolph Falk of Austria
Claims That Adam Was Born
In Peru or BO .ivia---Cler.
ical Opinions Pro tt
and Con.
New York Star.I

New York star.I
It has been asserted by eminent sa-
wants of late that Adam, the progeniror
of the human family, was an American.
This astonishing discovery was made by
the eminent Austrian philologist, DIR.
Rudolph Falk, who has communicated
the result of his researches to the Neue
Freie Presse Of Vienna. He claims that
either in Peru or Bolivia Adam first saw
the light Of day, and that the languages
spoken by the Indians of Quichua and
Aimara exhibit remarkable affenity to
the Semitic languages, particularly the
Arabic. DR.. Falk asserts that he has
discovered connecting link with the
Aryan roots, and has finally reached the
conclusion that the Semitic roots are
universally Aryan. Quichua and Alma
ra are where all the common stems Of all
the variants are found in their purest
condition. From this he deduces the
theory that the high plains Of Peru and
Bolivia must be acknowledged as the
birthplace of the human race and its
point of exit. DIR. Falk has been versed
in the Arabic language since boyhood,
and feels confident he has made no mis-
take. Europe, Asia and Africa are re-
ally the New World, and America the
Old-where Adam was horn.
Rev. Joseph Wild, DID,, pastor Of the
Union Congregational Church, Brooklyn,
was questioned yesterday by a reporter
of the Star about this deeply interesting
discovery. He said: "Why Adam
should not have been an American, I
can see no reason. 1have always taken
the view that America was inhabited be-
fore the Flood. There is, geologi-
cally, no question whatever Of the
fact The prairies were fields cultivated
| in the antediluvian period. Now,
| the Aryans were derived from the Sc
| mites or Shemites. Aryan means able
cultivator. Hence the Semitic race, be-
ing most agricultural, doubtless irrigated
these large tracts Of land on the North
American Continent. The Saxons,
through their descent from the Semites,
were Aryans. The Aryan was the SEC
ond name given to the Semitic, and the
Saxon the third. Another point worth
noticing is that South America and
Southern Asia were joined before the
food. That is the theory of Prof.
Haeckel, Of Jena, the great evolutionist.
We are on the Northern Continent but
in the same latitude"
"When did the Semitic and Aryan
races divide~
ri have no doubt the division took
place at the time of the destruction of
the Isle of Atlantis by volcanic erup-
| tions. This is mentioned in the scrip
| lures. We are told in Genesis and again
after the food that the earth was di-
| vitied in tire days Of Peleg. This re-
ferred to the Island of Atlantis. S,lon,
the Greek, speaks Of it, as we'll as Plato
in his Dialogue Of Tim@us." He says
that great earthquake lasted for day
and night, which destroyed great cities
and warlike nations. Now, that is when
the southwestern portion Of America
was separated from the southeast Of
| Asia. That will account for Prof.
Falk's theory of the similarity Of their
roots Of Languages In South America
we have pyramids such as they had in
Egypt. No pyramids are to be found
elsewhere except in Egypt and South
America"
"Will not this discovery conflict witt
the Biblep'
"Oh, no. At least not necessarily
We have to do the best we can from thu
light we have. We ought to make NJ
change in our belief except what is il
accord with the spirit Of the times, o
rather what is necessary to progress
We have already modified Genesis ant
made it more sensible"
'"Then we can claim Adam as a Yan
kee."
"It does not follow that Adam was
Yankee in our sense. EARLY civilization
ran right across the then united cont
nents. l have always argued tina
Noah ark was built in South America
and that it foated away from west t.
east. The food was one hundred ant
fifty-four days in duration. Taking TIL
rate of the current as it flows natural.
from west to east, the distance would b
lust six thousand miles. Charleston i
in direct line with Mount Ararat."
"What of Adams residence in tn
Garden Of Eden, at the junction of tn
four rivers"
"NaturalIy, of course, the location o
these rivers would have been changed b.
the Flood. We can form no idea as t
the locality of Paradise. Moses ha
never been thoroughly understood, AM
never can be, at least that portion Of hi
data before the food" 4
Professor John A. Weisse, M. d., VIII
has been President Of the American
Pathological Society for the last tw
years, was next seen by the reporter, an
was informed Of DR.. Falk's alleged dis
covery. He said:
"I do not think the human racestartet
on the American Continent. have beel
investigating this and kindred subject
for the last thirty years. Latterly
have changed my opinion entirely.
used to be a polygenetic. Now | am
p,onooanetic- that ia T ha1ieve the hu