The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-07


stabbing cold of the poles, North and
South, may now serve 10 conceal extinct
| civilizations Aeons hence, when the Po-
lar regions are blossoming under a trop-
ical sun, the fossils OF their past viii be
unearthed by the humanity of the for
distant future as scientists today dig out
the relics Of the mound builders.
The earth floats upon seni-liquid eie-
ment eight thousand miles in diameter.
The surface strata are the result to a
great extent of the interior heat OF the
globe, which thows out what may be
termed foreign substances or old matter
resmelted. The thickness of the earth's
crust has no especial bearing upon the
diuturnal theory The diameter of our
globe is. OF course, vastly greater than
the thickness OF the mere she'll
The actual thickness of the earth's shell
may. in fact. never be positively aser-
tanned. But the diutuVnal theory accounts
for the volcanic and seismic commissions
OF the earth's surface by the tendency
of the inner liquid mass TO eject all for
e:zn substances. The Wavelike motion of
the crust has a tendency TO project frag-
ments of the terrestrial shell into the
liquid mass. These fragments are unfail-
ingly elected. Hence. then. is a somewhat
general but still adequate explanation
OF volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
William Andrews IS very positive in his
contention that the earth's crust is a
mere film, little better than mass of
materials floating on a sea of liquid fire. -
Compared with its diameter the earth's
crust is not much thicker than The dross
on a mass Of molten lead" Hhis film or
shell is sutained in position by forces
from within and from without. It floats
in a natural and perpetual equilibrium be-
tween these forces ito be disturbed only
by a revolution or rotation which nature
designed from the beginning 10 cause it
to move in one slow but perpetual wave"
This wave produced and is still producing
all the phenomena of which man is cog
infant in relation to the earths strait
fcatiou.
The author of the diuturnal theory
draws up a plan of the rotations. This
plan reveals for scientific purposes the
eccentric motion of this, our planet in re-
lation to time and strstifcation. The Pc
RODS of time are not decisively, but they
are approximately, correct.
Two houndred and ten million years
ago that part of the southern ocean in
which the South Shetland Islands are now
situated was, by the spiral revolution of
the earth. made to pass under southern
sidereal polar regions
One hundred and sixteen million years
ago Patagonia passed diagonally under
the southern sidereai polar regions.
One hundred and twenty-st-g million
year ago the valley of the Rio de Ia
Plata, involving Bolivia and the head wat
ers of the Amazon, passed diagonally
under the southern sidereal polar regions.
Eighty-four million years ago part of
the Caribbean Sea was under the north
ern sidereal polar regions.
Forty-two million years ago NovaScotia
was under the southern sidereal polar re-
eions.
Today North America has returned to
its present position beneath the sidereal
heavens.
1t is inevitable that Greenland viii pass
though and within the boundaries of that
region lying under the northern sidereal
polar regions.
This can be put in another way. An
interval of forty-two million years elapsed
between each of the following periods:
From the beginning Of the transition
conglomerates to the close of the old red
sandstone system.
From the beginning of the mountain
limestone to the close of the carbonifer-
GUS system of the northern hemisphere
From the beginning of the new red
sandstone system to the close of the
green sand stratum.
From the beginning OF the cretaceous
period to the close of the tertiary for
nation.
From tn close of the tertiary formation
of the northern hemisphere. or the time
the drift was spreading over the north
ern continents. to the presnt position Of
the globe.
What" inquiries the diuturnal theo-
rist, has occurred on our globe since that
eventful period. More than could pos
sibly be described in five thousand vol
umes, if authors would do justice to each
department of the sciences and to the
development Of the human
family even from that standpoint" He
concluded this part of thesubiect with
1eclartion that the evidence is strongly
inf avOr of the existance Of human be-
ngs on this planet as far back as the
niocene, or middle tertiary, period
The progress Of man in civilization and |
is made by our theorist to
depend upon the diturnal revolution Of Z
he earth His existance dates from the /
irift period The consequence Of the di- /
lturnal movement Of Europe and North /
America from the equator 10 their pres 4
mt position is that a vast period of time 4
las been afforded the inhabitants Of the 4
lorthern hemisphere for the attainment /
" their present degree Of enlightenment 4
md progression. The mound builders Of
North America were a more enlightened 1
ace Of people and further advanced IN
general development than the native IN
isns Of this continent because Of their
,resumable connection with the preced-
ng inhabitants Of the region Of the Aleu-
ian Archipelago
The native Indians Of this continent IN
alter days. however. may have been the
descendants Of tribes either from North
m Asia, or from the same source
through South America. It's ancient land
0nnection undoubtedly continued with
he southern portion of the Asiatic con-
inent. after unheeded years had run
heir silent course through many thous-
nd ages Europe became the point II
istribui,5a from which spraug the nu-
leus OF the first civilized Inhabitants Of
forth America" The Asiatic nations.
suaily deemed the oldest of people must
d reality be much younger n time than
he many thousands Of generations which
ave passed away on the soil Of Europa.
nus the diuturnaI revolution becomes 1
be measure Of the scale OF human ex-