, 1881-02-12

Ecnora.tons Of 1,ooo, OK, 900 unch. hi

generations Of 1,0oo, 100000 zach, who.
helnE assembled, retlulro standing rom,
f,;tc rf cToWsa !. ,Ha,, ,Sf,lns uf 'ae w"'.el md
eaGh two square feet, VI room. Il s1i,aro
mile contains, IN round ,ll,nhcrs, =, 5,ixO, ,Okj
! s,!.laro tGet. atul is,hW,Mn uersa1ls wnnhl
sa'!ti Times tint spuGo would hold the porl,-
Rttnn Uf n hundred Thousand years, That
ts to say, as0,U0 sI,.nre miles would con.
tnlt! tl!Gn,, and, gathered III tic pnrailrlo.
long by TO broatl. .rl.ey eonld be cnsiy &c
co!ilnltnlatc,! ill ono Gr two of our States
Dend and bnrlct! s!tlo by ste, they woul,t
require only fly. times their s.amling spare,
States If america has nlnplo wild landa. rs
yGt unwnniet nt,h uipceupietl, to give them
AeGlnetery. II my one wishes, l,u ,nay esti.
i,e in',e nn, 10y H,Y tl,,sd years ot Kener-
out erowttinx zach other. -,
whoever win 1nny imngtns Tho population
assembled ,' III circle, or IL vnst theatre
Wlt Wltl. tnor nboYo ,lnor, each floor Diminishing
people or vivid Imagination g0otl to rc.l,,c. Mn
such inagi'lations Il; tho facts of figures, uu
any schoolgirl cnn do u.
!snt 1t Is lust ~ we'll before leaving tho
subject 70 say that tho ltu!Idrc! Thousand
tion Is MS wild talk M his figures. Men of
uncertain faith nrg very fond OF saying TINT
nl'ior men lsnve no faith: Nothing. can bo
moro more absurd tl'an wlnt he says about tho
ssnEe-coact into tho mud thought tho coacll
bud upset. Mr. Murray will suon iinL ont
TINT tho Church, whatever Its denomination.
o. l;a 1lan,cl y Efeat .ienl more steady III ITS
would EEatlly cony1nea outsiders that tho
old co1cfl las actually k0no nyrr.
In Ills lecture, rs reported, lie makes n sntl
ln,'ble # tso distinct subjects, tilo neo Of
about te extreme antiquity. Of tic human
rAcp Iinvc bee1 very few, and have produced
M sen7is>e effect OIL the faith Df tho Church
among @hat aru sni|ssl scientists ,ho pressmt s'
difference Of opinion us. t., tho ago Of
tho human raco Is limited to q co,.t-
parattscly short leriod. l3ynsel,'s the
oEy t,!yy Of n date :. 9. sogo9 for Egyptian orl-
of Il. q. 5,00O fbr Afenes Tor Alisrlfm) will
satisfy the views 1f The most extreme among
recognized men of sense.
Ih9 bono cavo men havc met with tho
simple rules of evidence, which nupiy to
M their supposed discoveries rs they appIy. to
tEoy i,aye not proved In \ single instance
that human bones lave been lying fifty,
theory that tho Mississippi had been 40,000
years, leposlting drift over lltinall bones
found fl tte deposit Disappeared IN mist
when Humphreys md Abbott, United States
Engineer officers on duty, having no theory
isf1ctorily. determined that tho entire
Delta Of the Mississippi llaY required only
4,ooq. years fur its tota1 dsi'osit. It Is
no longer q Question Of, religion against
science, hut n caso IN which common sense
and q knowledge Of tho laws uf evidence
are demanding something more than t,sscr-
ton WITHOUT prnof, asktng for fncts III dis
tlnct{on from theory. OM the whole, 1t has
become the fashion to laugh Il ,ttln nt tho
fantasttc theories uf science falsclyso cnlle.i.
duced any sensible effect upon the Church or
It's teachings. There arc just MS many goott
peop!a and Just aa mnny great intellectual
Heople ns ever who. still believe anil teach
tint tho human rage is about 5000 years old,
nl that t1e!uEe Ind 9nce redlssd tts opn;
record Of Moses Is SO prevalent and thero are
50 lnnliy millions Of educated nnA reRs0lln-
nle peonlo holding 1t tint It Is really wortl.
me while Of boys nt,d Girls, md perhaps Of
as accepted by thesu gool people In old autl
modern tnes. Thus In G,000 years there nre
!so generations, md, rs we know something
by historic evidence Of tho sparse popu!n-
tlohs Of former times III some parts OF tho
%1,ra, .,n a. ~, !,, must lnake alleWa.,ce for tho
safo in estimating onc-halt ti,o pres. pres.
eht p0phlat!m as the average III all past gen-
erat'ons. Then 1so generations cacl, Of 5oo.-
h,tinun race. Graves Of ten square feet for
cacll would be easily found III each of Qultun
number OF tho States In the Union, and this
assembly Of aal the generations Of innnklnd
would stall! III circle around Mount Blanc,
Mount .,lnt washington, or Mount slnAl, ~ lear
miles distant.