Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-15
THE ORIGINAL HOME OF MAN.

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THE ORIGINAL HOME OF MAN.
Where Was Eden Bocatcd2-Thc Doc
| trinc of Evolution.
| Eden, according to the prevalent
idea of the teaching of the bible, was a
district Of Armenia, watered by the
| Tigris and Euphrates. The biblical
| narrative, in fact, mentions the Eu-
| phrates as one Of the rivers OF Eden.
| Undoubtedly, in the common belief,
Paradise was In Asia, and not in Eu-
rope or Africa. A few ingenious
| Gated mans birthplace in Europe
or Africa, some having the
| hardihood TO establish 1t in America;
but those who have made the most fan
| ciful use OF the scanty evidence supplied
| by the second chapter of Genesis have
been content usually to find the gar
don eastward in Eden" within the linn
! it's of Asia. Scientists, who hold u
special view respecting the mode Of
mans origin, are approaching, it is
pleasant to observe, says the Bal
timore Sun, agreement with the
| general Wow as to its place.
! In his new work on evolution Mr.. Alfred
Wallace, who may be said to rank with
| Darwin as the creator of the new view
| of the origin of species, expresses the
| belief that man originated in one of the
| plateaus of Asia. Haeckel's view was
somewhat different. He held that man, i,
! or his progenitor, originated in q cont-
nent which once existed east of Africa
| and south of Asia, but which is at pres
ent the bed of the Indian ocean.
This continent, he supposed, was con-
| nected on the west with Madagascar
and fripo nd an tho mort with sin
| and it was by successive migrations
westward and northward that Africa
| and Asia were peopled. Hero in trop-
ical region, according to Haecl1el, were
found the conditions which favored the
intellectual and physical development
OF the progenitor of the human and the
monkey races. Wallace holds, on the
| contrary, that man originated IN Asia
and in some part of it favored
with q temperature of sub-tropical
climate. st is probable" he says,
THAT he began his existence on The
open plains or the high plateaus of the
temperate or sub-tropical zone, whore
the seed of indigenous cereals and nu
merous herbivora, rodents, and game
birds, with fishes, mollusks in the lakes
and rivers and seas, supplied him with
an. abundance of varied'food." Here he
would develop, not the aboreal struct-
ure of the monkey, fitted III hands and
feet for obtaining ripened fruit from
ture that fitted him to get his
living while roaming through scanty
woods and over the open plains. Mr..
Wallace finds man related to the an
thropoid ape. 1t is not his belief, of
course, that he is descended from the
| ape as he knows him, but that man aud
the anthropoid ape are descended from
| a common ancestor. The genealogical
tree Of man and the ape, according to
the evolutionist view, has many
branches, widely separated for ages
past, but If converging lines could be
followed back far enough a point, it is
believed, would ultimately be reached
| whore the son who was the tirstancestor
of man was the brother of the first
ancestor OF the anthropold ape.
The father of them both was of course
neither man nor ape. 1t was mis- sons
| who, differing much in character, force,
| and progressiveness, developed in them
selves and in succeeding generations
the structure and qualities that now
distinguish man and the ape from each
other. To Mr.. Wallace it is clear that
man and the anthropoid apes originated
in the same region of the earth
Where, then, have the latter been
found to be now existing, or to have
existed in former ages? They
have never EXISTED, it appears,
in America, and did not exist in Africa
when it was connected with Madagas-
car and both were separated from Asia
Madagascar was separated from Africa
before the latter became joined with
Asia by the Isthmus of Suez. The ami
mails of ancient Africa are therefore to
be sought in Madagascar. But there
are no traces of anthropoid apes in
Madagascar. Those, therefore, which
now exist in Africa must have
come from Asia. There is proof that
man existed before the Isthmus of Suez
rose above the level of the sea, and,
supposing his distribution to have
been like that OF his supposed relative,
he must have reached Africa by land
from Asia. The color of the Chinaman,
intermediate between the black of
Africa and the white of Europe, Mr.
Wallace thinks the original color of
man. The suns of Africa ebonized the
complexion of the African while the
winters of Europe were blanching the
European. Further explanation OF the
plateaus of Central Asia may bring to
light, Mr.. Wallace suggests, the early
man, the missing link, whose persistent
aiibi, so to speak, is so damaging to the
evolutionist.
Mercury and potash mixtures dry up the
secretions of the body, cause mercurial rheu-
matism and dyspepsia, and finally run the
system down to such condition that other
diseases are induced. Swift's Specific builds
up the patient from the first dose, and gives
life and vIgor to the whole human frame.
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