The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-05-20

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oil prehistoric America n ~ '0as
gin Of the American Abo5sisss
Many theories hate teen ~
pounded, but oil, e9cept *.
which allows the lndiane 10 h.,s
been indigenous, ore easily AZ
proved. Professor Fiske nves
comprehensive summary ~ e
these with the authority upc.
which each is bassd and the
searches and proofs By which =
was discrediied. Tho a.summ;o"
almost always was that ne Xm"s'
lean natives were desoended FINN
"orixinal settlers who had mov.s
east ward from Asia during ~
historical peri0d. by anne inyesti'
gators theae early o0loMists ver.
supposed 10 have been kam,chss.
kans. Others were convinced ihsv
were Cinnamon, and there N.
more than one ardent champion Of
the theory that they we're The Iost
tribes Of Israel. The lkraelitish
myth as was natural enough he.
came . part Of The impoeilse or
joseph smith, who, with III reck.
~lesshess Of ignorance, made hit Il.
legged defendants or Nephi ana
Lamar Of The house Of judah
workers in iron and owners n
sheep aud oxen, notwithstanding
that the prehistoric Amencans
knew nothing 0f metals or domes.
Ilc animals.
There Is no reason "a doubt that
men existed in America not only
long before The house Of Judah
was scattered, but ages before ihe
children OF Israel became Z peo.
pie. Indeed, recent investigations
60 Tar 10 prove that the original
American antelaied The close 81
The glacial period. Among tho
evidences Of this are the palmo-
liths found by d. z. g. Ab6oit, in
the Trenion gravel, by d.. Metz
ut jacksonville, III the Little Mi.
ami Valley, and in jackson coun.
ty. Indiana, and BY H. r. Cieseon
at Claymont. in Delaware. Pro.
fessor Fiske 10 disposed To identify
The cave men OF glacial Europe
with the Esquimsnx anil The mod.
ern Esquimsux rs The remnant Of
the glacial man IN Anleylca.
Whether the American Indians
are earlier or later corners than
The Esquimaux, from whom they
are of Nm entirely different stock,
is not determinable, but this much
is certain, that whether Algonquin
or Ir0quols, Zuno or A5iec, they
were all OF one race. All OF them,
according 10 Ar. Morgan, were be-.
!ow civilization, in y condition of
harbarism or snvagery. Sxcekery
Is the lowest condition Of manIimd,
and il is divided into Z lower,
middle anc upper status. The
line Of division between sayagery
and batbarism IL, according ~
Morgan's criterion, the making of
pottery. Or the lower Status Of
savagery, where men subsisied en-
on fruit and nuts, there ].
no longer any trace-exixling
races had passed beyond it Al M
unknown antiquity. Our mo6orn
LEAK WaItons will be pleased IL
learn that men began 10 pass be.
it when they learned 10 catch
fish and 10 use fire.
The middle status Of savagery,
10 which The natives OF Australia
still belong, ends With the inven.
lion Of the bow and arrvw. Tho
tribes in America in biz.
times have never been lower
than the upper status Of savagery.
Indeed, the North American In.
who we're first seen By white
men early In The seventeenth cen.
Jury, ~ the AlgonqMins and The
lroquois, had alrendy passed into
he lower status Of barbarian.
The Greeks and Cherokecs he'd id.
RANGED much farther, but the up.
Der status was never reached in A.
nerica-not even BY the Zunis,
he Astecs, The Mayas and the Re.
'uvians. Among The latter tribes
The better sort are placed by
Fiske still one degree
The level Of The Greeks Of
be Homeric poems which IL ysth-
y rough on tbe Greeks. We thus
Q very moderate ealimate
Il The advancement Of prsstbstoyic /.
nan 10 America. imputed until
. comparatively recent %.
iod by = flippant sclsolarship Is
uperior 10 The civilization Of he
|panards Of the sixteenth century.
: is easy enough 10 talk II tks
utilization or Mexico end Peru C
DO time Of Cortes, bat thsre~was
o empire Of Monsesuma; Monte.
una A. Z civilized man was q
ear to P0whattan o. no vas To
and Aontesuma's
we're bsrbagians only one
lsge farther advanced than tho
l0hawks. The Axtec Uonfedor1.
' was essentially that Of the Five
|ati0ps, and N0nteSuna's "kal.
ce" WA only m improvement on