Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-09

we're answered, Miss Cleveland building
better than she knew.
THE NORTH POLE AND PARADISE.
We have now very good reason tor be-
lieving that the late Sir John Franklin
and our Captain C. F. Hall and their fel-
low-voyagers in the Arctic regions were
not so very far out Of the way when they
embarked for Paradise by way of the North
Pole. We really think that they reached
the desired haven and are now in the en-
joyment of skies that are never beclouded;
Of flowers that never fade and fruits that
will be forever and ever abundant and the
rich juice Of which will never pail on the
palate. We are led to this conclusion by
the arguments and conclusions OF vol
ume that has just been issued by Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Of Boston, from
the pen of DR.. Warren, president Of Boston
University, one Of our ablest educators
and writer's, who in it supports with rea-
son. fact and quotations from high authori-
ty, his belief that the Garden Of Eden four
terrestrial Paradise) was located at
the North Polel The author I've are
told by gentleman who has read
the new book, member Of the staff Of the
Congregstionalist. at Bostou) first exam
ines the ideas which explorers, theologians
nsturalists, ethnologists, ETC., have held as
to the situation Of Eden. Then-men-
tiouing several new conditions of the pro-
blem, upon his hypothesis Of its solution.
such as the facts that there would have
been for the first men but one day and one
night In each year; that the stars would
have had an apparently horizontal motion
round and round the observer from left to
right, etc.-he considers the testimony Of
scientific geogony, astronomical geogra-
ply, Photographed geology, prehistoric
climatology, and archaeological botany,
zoology, anthropology and ethnology, and
finds that these conditions are met satis-
factorily, the evidence seeming to show
that the North Pole was the first habitable
spot on the globe, that it had but one day
and night q year, that there must have
been q geologic cataclysm which destroyed
the antediluvian world and transferred hu-
msnity permanently to lower latitudes. II
also appears that the climate of the Arctic
zone originally was temperate, if not even
tropical, that this zone was the source Of
the flora and fauna of the world, and that
it is the only locality whence the migra-
tons of the human race can have pro-
ceeded.
Next the author inquiries into ancient
cosmology and mythical geography, and
seeks the cradle of the race as indicated in
Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, Aka
dian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian and
Greek thought, finding con6rmatory evil
dence everywhere for his theory; and then
he offers veri6cations based upon the Pc
culisrities Of polar paradise-the Eden
stars, day and zenith, the navel Of the
earth, the qusdrifurcate river, the central
tree. and the exuberance Of life. He
points out the significance of the results
reached for the study Of biology and ter
restrial physics, ancient hterature-the
Homeric conception Of the abode of the
gods receiving especial illumination, and
some modern errors in understanding it
being corrected-the origin and earliest
form of religion. the philosophy Of history,
and the development Of civilization.
That settles it" for US. Our sponge"
goes up higher than kite. If the learned
Doctor hasn't made out his case we GER
tainly cannot show why. And keen and
accomplished critics, who know about
everything there is to be known, have had
their breath taken almost away by ''the
immense sweep" Of the distinguished au-
thor's range of investigation. OF the
book, the Congregationalists reviewer
says:
Dr.. Warren's belief is entirely consistent
with the teaching of the Scriptures, and in
deed gives a new and seemingly reasonable
explanation of some passages of scknowl-
edged difficulty. 1t cuts the ground from be-
meath the theories OF certain scholars aud
scisntists-notably some mythologists- and
therefore will be opposed stoutly, but at the
least it may be pronounced unhesitatingly to
be Is reasonable as the theories in question.
1t 10 consistent with the statements of the
Bible about the early character Of the human
race, the fall and the deluge. 1t argues Wig
orously against the notion that the first men
were degraded savages. 1t seems to accept
the probability that our race has existed for
many thousands Of years, but it insists tha,
we have fallen from an originally high estate
and that, as Mr.. Emerson is quoted as having
once said, "The problem of restoring to the
world original and eternal beauty is solve
BY the redemption Of the SOUL"