Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-24

Mr.. q. I. Goodwin OF Brentwood
makes novel suggestion in letter to
the Gazette. that Is referred to the
students of physical science. lie
writes:
.In the scientific works OF modern
date all authors agree that at some
remote time In the history of the worl1
there was u glacial age, or a period OIL
time in which Ice in vast quantitles
covered the face OF the earth; that
during the time II was freezing 1t took
up in a frozen condition large amounts
or earth. sand stones, shells, FOSSILS,
trees. shrubs flowers, in word. what
I viii call the fossils, flora and fauna
of the locality where frozen, anu that
at different Intervals during the long
period OF the glacial age warm tenn
perate periods interviewed, when caus-
ed the icebergs to melt, and while
meltln; to drift from place to place
continuously, depositing the fossils,
flora and fauna in large or small guam
titles; that II had absorbed While ireez-
ing.
@To prove this theory of a glacial
age, and OF intermediate temperate pc
RODS, they not only refer to the drltt
beds scattered throughout the worlu,
hut they examine their contents ana
lind the fossils, flora and fauna OF
the equatorial regions deposited IN
temperate and hypoborean regions OF
the earth and vice versa,
"They also find the marks and en-
brasures of drift grinding on the ste mes
OF hills and mountains ana pebbles 81
the valleys, as well as In the DRIFT
beds of all climates, while the smooth
ing effects of the glaciers are visible on
the deposited sea shell and fossils OF
foreign oceans.
these and many other indlsputable
facts have made these scientists come
to the conclusion that In the far away
times there were glacial and temper
ate ages succeeding each other. II also
seems to be the might of authority
that miocene and pliocene man roam
ed the earth during the temperate Pc
riods that interviewed between the sew
eral ages.
"Now, to the point; My opinion is
that In the strict sense of the word
there never was glacial age on the
earth. / admit the truthfulness OF
the testimony those learned men intro
duce to establish the evidence OF gla-
clers and of temperate Intervals be-
tween them but | attribute II to u
more natural and scientific cause.
1.-THE earth has Its daily, annual and
/ constcllntory revolutions, and each act
/ together on the same great principle,
and In perfect harmony with the laws
/ of nature,
We all know and admit that the
earth performs Its daily and annual
revolution in the solar system; then
why not 20 n little further and exam
/ Inc the revolution that the solar system
makes In connection with hundreds of
other systems around the central point
+ OF universal gravltatlon. II the daily
| revolutions of the earth make our day
40 Na1 FF.ta ftFtN.
1 round the center OF the solar system
make the changes of the season, by
the inclination OF the axes Of the earth,
why not the revolution VI our system
around the common center Of universal
Eravitation make the arctic and ant
arctic regions revolve around the earth
so as to perpetuhlly change the poles
and the equator? II the daily revolu-
tion and the annual revolution produce
such changes In twenty-four hours, and