National Republican., 1883-04-10
TIE CLASSICAL SOCIETY.
Tho Antiquity OF Man Disousscd-Interest-
ing Discovery In Blood CorpuscIes.


At tho Classical society last night Miss
Ransoms studio was filled with n very select
and intellectual audience. Judge shellabarger
presided. Rev. Dr. Sunderland had been an
nounced TO read an essay on the Pyramid Of
Cheops,o but, being suddenly called to Now
York, did not appear. His place was filed by
Rev. Dt. Childs, who read paper on tho An
tiuuitv of Man." wherein he undertook TO
show that the duration Of mans existence on
earth was not nearly as great as had been
claimed by the slicntsts.
Gen Brney replied to the arguments of
the cssayist, claiming that IL was impossible
that men should not have existed here from
u very remote period. He sought to establish
his point by pathological, chronological, archT-
oop cal, and geological illustrations. IL TOOK
vast period Of time, ho said, TO develop
science. Men had developed many sciences.
IL took a vast pcriod to establish new Ian
Suage--meu had established many such.
Il took long timo for people of one stock
20 become separated in many raccs The
llindoo and the Frenchman belonged TO the
same parent Aryan race. How long would IL
take TO transform o Hindoo 70 Frenchman
and vice Versa2
Prof. Theodore Gin said that scientists
never set any definite period of time as the
duration Of mans existence on earth Whom
the scientist said a million Of years he didn't
mean 10 IN Inht rs n ueunlIe nBrlOu. IN IuCU
he merely meant figure of speech. For his
own part he didn't think men could have
lived hero less than 100000 years. How
much longer was speculation. It had been said
that God made men after His own image. As
a matter Of fact man was merely an elaborate
ape. There was absolute correspondence in
blood, bone, muscle, norve, and brain between
man and the ape. An argumentagainstevo evolu-
tiJn has been used by the preachers, to the eff
feet that the human eye, as wonderful or
gan, could not have been developed from in
organic amorphous matter. As q matter Of
fact, potent to every body, the Chicken with
oil its organs, eyes included, had been
evolved and developed from the inorganic
egg. Men must have been on earth n very
long time On the supposition of the unity
Of all mankind from . single pair IT
was shown on Egyptian monuments at least
5000 years old, that the negro and the whito
man existed then precisely as they do now,
without the slightest change.
DIR. Childs here asked Prof. Gill IL the
negro had not changed q particle in the last
1000 years, how much, at the same rate, could
he have changed In 10000 or 400, 900 years2
Prof. Taylo, made some specially interest
inc remaks on tho blood corpuscles In man.
Prof. Gill had said that there was really no
difference In tho blood of the mammals. You
could not distinguish between the blood Of q
man and the blood of O horse, though you
could between man and chickens blood
Prof. Taylor said that he had lately been as
tonishcd to find, upon actual experiment.
thot not only did the blood of man contain
tho white and the red corpuscles, with tho
third or Invisible corpuscle but II really con
tanned ave or six corpuscles differing in size.
He should continue the experiments.
Prof. Gregory said that II II took only three
weeks to evolve chicken out of an egg he
did not think IL would take long to change q
Frenchman o TO Hindoo. Gen. Alvord aud
Prof Elliott also discussed the question, aftor
which the society adjourned.