The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-13
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nisl l"ai ns To suppose hat there
WA the birthplace Of the human race
wc are unable to adopt that theory
IL that continent there are at the
present time no anthropoid apes. and
80 lar as We we know, there never
have been any in past ages. Never
thcless, VIC can hardly y refuse to admit
'hat the evidence clearly shows that
our ancestors "erc IL N"r:!: America
during the later portion Of the tertiary
epoch, and that llcy came there from
or by the arcli,. regions. Bchring
stra,a ~ Gr,rullnd
In . l,ltcr to the Times news splpcr
in tngl,i, l-~1, ! pointed out that
scieace would appear to teach II, that
our planet was at Que time Il fiery
nia>', the heat Of which wa TOO yrcat
{, permit Of either animal or vcrcta-
hic lille, and tha. "a, this fiery mass
cooled down the first part 10 reach a
temperature sufficiently TO allow
life to exist would be the north and
south poles. At these parts evolution
would be going on through long ages.
aud cras Of many million years, while
the tropics were still fiery .irdlc
around the earth, across which no liv-
ing creature might pass.
Sir Herbert Maxwell, in his inter
csting memoirs Of the month, observes
that birds, drawn by a hereditary
impulse, press rs far northw;.rd as
possible to rear their young, bearing
witness that in polar regions lies the
source oil animated nature And
Prof ssor Mail, in his Round the
J ear, points out tiat i.raccs of men,
races OF animals, races Of plants, re-
ligious faiths, modes of civilization all
originate IN the northern continents
and spread out III successive waves:
The palace arctic region, and
in less degree, North America, have
been the 'olicina rcntiu.a' Of which
'Jornandcs spoke, the laboratory in
which new tribes arc fashioned, the
starting point of waves and migration
which at length reach the rcmotcst
corners of the earth"
This corresponds in great measure
with my own views on the subject,
which is that the cradle of the human
race was probably the vast tract Of un-
broken land lying between the Ural
mountains on the west and the Beh-
ring straits, the Sea of Ohkotsk and
Manchuria on the cast. 1t also is
partly in accordance with the opinion
of MIR. Wallace, who suggc ats that tho
birthplace of man vas probably in
Central Asia. 1t is three thousand
miles across from the Ural mountains
to Manchuria, and in so large coun-
try the human race may have multi
piled for centuries and have reached
moro than million members before
it sprcad' to other continents. This
region is little known from gcologi-
cal point of view, and may contain any
number of human relics, fossils, flints,
skeletons, etc., for anything that we
know to the contrary. During the
concenc epoch the climate and tenn
pcrature would not, therefore, be too
hot to allow the race not only to exist
but also to progress and improve. AS
its extreme northern boundary is close
TO the polar regions, in this rcspcct it
also meets the view of those who hold
that the source Of animated nature
was located at the poles and not at the
equator. It's propinquity to the Bcb-
ring straits, where there was probably
at this time an isthmus joining the
two continents, would enable tic race
To pass over into America, and would
account for the fact that they we're
apparently in that country ut an even
earlier date than that at which they
reached western Europe. They would
also at once spread into China; and
We know from the unique and prime
val character of the Chinese language
that there is no older race on the
earth than the Chinese, and that in
China mankind may possibly have
first learned to talk and develop the
faculty of speech.
In this vast region between Man
churia and the Ural mountains there
arc high table lands and other dis
trlcts that are comparatively destitute
of trees, and it is not improbable chat
primitive man got separated from, or
driven out Of, the forest and was com.
PEELED to give up tree climbing and to
take to walking on these wild platcaus
and prairics. After scramblinc alo,r