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4 Belief rhae Human Lac Besaa In oae ol
the PIatcaus cf Asia.

MANS CHtGtNAt HUME
Belief that Human Iarc Began In oae ui
the PIAtcaus d Asia.
Eden. according TO tho prevalent
idea Of the teaching OF the Bible, was
n district OF Armenia. watered by the
Tigris. and Euphrates. The Biblical
narrative in fact mentions the Eu-
pirates as one OF the rivers OF Eden.
Undoubtedly. in the common belief,
Paradise WAS in Asia and not in Europe
or Africa A few ingenious persons,
1t is true. have located mans birth
place In Europe or Africa some hay
ing the hardihood to establish 1t in
America, but those who havc made
the most sfancifut use OF the scanty
evidence supplied BY the second chap
ter OF Genesis have been content usu-
ally to find the garden eastward In
Eden." within the limits OF Asia
Scientists. who hold special view
respecting the mode OF mans origin,
are approaching. it is pleasant to OBJ
serve, agreement with the general
view as TO its place. In his new work
on evolution Mr.. Alfred Wusiace, whe
| may Be said to rank with %Darwin+ rs.
the creator OF the new view oil the
origin OF species. expresses the belief
that man originated in one oil the
plateaus OF Asia IIaeckcl's view was
somewhat different. He hold that
man. or his progenitor, originated In n
continent that once existed east OF
Africa und south OF Asia, but which is
| at present the bed OF the Indian
Ocean This continent. he supposed.
was connected on the west with Muda-
| gascar and Africa and -on----thn
north with Asia. and 1T was
| by successive migrations westward
and northward that Africa and
Asia were, peopled. Hero In tropical
region. according to Haeckcl. 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 u temperate or sub-tropical eli
mate. 1T is probable. no says. .that
he began his existence On the open
plains OF high plateaus Of the temper.
ate or sub tropical zone where the
seed OF indigenous cereals and numer-
Gus herbivor;l. rodents and game birds,
with fishes and mollusks in the lakes
and rivers and seas. supplied him with
an abundance Of varied food Here
he. would develop not the arboreal
structure tho-rnenise ittetIin:
hands and feet for obtaining ripened
fruit from trees by elm hing, but the
structure that fitted him to get his liv-
ing while roaming through scanfy
woods Mr.. Wallace finds man related
to the anthropoid apo. It is not his
belief, OF course. that he Is descended
from the ape as we know him, but that
man and the anthropoid ape are de-
scended from common ancestor. The
genealogical tree OF man and the ape,
according to the evolutionist view. has
many branches, widely separated for
ages past, but IL the converging lines
could be followed back far enough, a
point, 1t is believed, would ultimately
be reached where the son who was the
/ first ancestor OF man was the broth err
OF the ancestor OF the anthropoid ape.
/ The father OF them both was, OF
course, neither man ape.=1tzw was
his sons who. differing much In
character, force and progress
iveness. developed in them
selves and In succeeding gen-
| erations 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
tho earth. Where. then, have tho
latter been found to be now existing.
| or to have existed in former ages?
| They have never existed, itappears. in
America. ind 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 lattcr-b became Joined
Wbdi ASIA W tuc iStiitiiuS VI QUIZ. ne
animals 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
como from Asia There is proof that
man existed before the Isthmus d!
4 Suez rose above tho level OF the sea,
aud, 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 China
man. Intermediates between the black
of Africa and the white OF Europe, Mr..
Wallace thinks, the original eelor OF
man. Tho suns OF Africa ebonized tho
complexion OF the African, while the
winters OF Europe were blanching the
European. Further exploration OF the
plateaus OF Central Asia may bring to
light, Mr.. Wallace suggests, the early
man. the missing link. whose persist
ent alibi. SO to speak, Is SO damaging
to tho case OF the evolutionist. -Balts-
more Sun.
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Romantic HeligoIands Doom.
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