Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-02-11
BIRTHPLACE OF THB HUnAN RACE.
Rev. ThOs. HarwOod Has Something to
Say on the Subject.

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Say on the Subject.
Editors Citizen.
The casual reader might infer from
what THK CITIZEN said about Prof.
Swans lecture the other night in the
Albuquerque college hall that his hear.
ers were all converted 10 the professors
theory that New Mexico, and probably
near Albuquerque, was the original
Eden aud the home Of our first parents.
1t is true we were we'll pleased with
the professors lecture. II showed study,
close research and a good deal Of origi-
nality, all Of which ought 10 commend
themselves to the intelligence OF our peo-
pie. II is not with a spirit OF criticism
or controversy | now pen these lines. but
only TO show that we are not all con-
verts 10 the New Mexico Eden theory.
neither 10 the supposed fact that the
American continent was inhabited be
fore the eastern world.
Professor and DR.. W. Il. Warren, In
Paradise Found" believing in the lost
Atlantis theory, locates our early Eden
in the Paleo Arctic ocean. He thinks
somewhere neal the north pole was the
cradle OF the human race. DR.. IgnaciO
Donnelly, also believing In the lost At
lantis theory, located II on a supposed
island In the Atlantic ocean west Of the
Mediterranean sea, long ago sunken, was
the cradle OF the early race and from
which the continents and islands were
peopled, carrying their civilization with
them, which had arisen, as he thinks, 10
q very great stage, before the time Of
NOah's food, when the island sank.
Many others have written on the proba-
bilitles of the Atlantis theory. early
taught by Plato, such as "Bancroft's
Native Races" Fosters Prehistoric
Races" etc.
The question as TO how and when the
American continent and isles of the seas
were settled has ever been to me a ques.
ton OF deep interest. The question can
be discussed without involving the Bible
theory, II we leave out the evolution
theory and that OF separate and multi
piled creations.
Before | venture to give space to my
own thought In the matter as to how the
people reached the American continent
and the isles OF the seas, | call attention
again to the many theories on the sub.
ject.
There are at least SIX theories claim
ing they come from Europe, viz; the
Welsh, the Irish, the Scotch, the Morse
men, the Romans and the Grecians each
claiming that from their own respective
country North and South America have
been populated. There are at least four
theories claiming that the American On-
tinents we're settled from Africa, viz:
the Egyptian, the Carthaginian. the Nu-
indian and the Atlantis theories. There
are at least five we'll defined theories that
the people on the American continent
came from Asia, viz the Jewish, the
India, the Chinese, the japanese and the
P|hOenician, etc, etc.
Now, independent of all the above
named theories, or rather with the aid OF
them all, for they all have claims upon
reason, may We not venture the following
conclusions:
First-.They have not all come from
Europe, or from Wales, or Ireland, or
Scotland, or Italy, or Norway. or from the
Grecian Archipelago.
SecOnd-Neither have they all come
from Africa, or from Egypt, or Car
thage nayigators or from Numidia with
its 1900 miles Of sea coast.
Third-Neither have they all come
from Asia, or from India, or China or
japan, etc.
FOurth-Neither have they all come TO
the American continent at one and the
same time.
Now. IN II not reasonable to suppose
that the people from Europe, Africa and
Asia, especially from Europe and Asia,