Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-23


At various times within the last CEN
fury assertions have been made that
Adam and the a%ntediluvian people
were of extraordinary height, but the
assertions have always been laughed
down by scoffers who never think for
themselves. In 1918 Henrion, a mem
Der Of the French Academy of Sciences,
published a pamphlet in which he as
serted that these p%ersonages of the BIZ
BILE were of the following height;
Adam, 1913 feet 9 inches; Eve, 11S feet
9 inches; Noah, q feet, Abram, 20
feet, and Moses, 10 feet. /, too, said a
scientific student of the Bible, in speak
ing Of this matter recently, am con-
hrmed in the belief that the prehis-
toric races were gigantic, but figure
out their statures, by a process Of rea-
soning different from that promulgated
by Henrion. According to the Old
Testament there were giants on earth
in those days whose daughters were
married to the sons of God, and whose
sons became mighty men. Also, the
sons Of Anak, in whose sight men
were said to be but grasshoppers.
(Grasshoppers of that period were az
large as the twentieth century dog.)
The Emmins and Zamzummains were
giant nations. Og, the king of Bash
an, remained of the remnant of giants;
Goliath, Of Gath, was a giant" Ac-
cording 10 Genesis, Noah lived $50
years and then died. The average life
of man today is about 70 years. 1t is
a we'll defined rule in nature that ami
mails, bipeds and quadrupeds live about
three and one-half times the number
of years required for individual matu-
rity. Thus man in this century ma
lures in twenty years and dies at the
age Of 70 years. Dividing the age of
Noah by three and one-half we find
that lie matured in about go years.
The average man of today at maturity
measures about 5 feet and weighs 125
pounds. Five feet in twenty years is
equivalent to 3 inches in n year.
Applying the same rule to Noah's ma
turing years. we find that at his ma
turity he was 81 feet tall and weighed
1875 pounds. 1t stands to reason that
il Noah was so great in body, Adam
must have been equally as large. The
mere fact that Adam was never born
evidences that he was a gigantic man.
Everything created during the forma-
tion ages was according to a very
large standard. The trees were sky
scrapers the animals immense and all
other things in proportion. Why should
Adam have been a freak in this array
of colossal nature? Civilization and
multiplication of the races diminish
the lives of individuals as we'll as the
statures. Why? Possibly because our
civilization is an unnatural perversion
of the life contemplated by u Crea-
tor for us, and as free agents we are
gradually destroying the race as a pen
atty for our wrong Interpretation of
our mission. The power to multiply
having been given us, death is a natu-
raj consequence, but death by natural
decay, instead of death by disease,
crime, war, pestilence, results of civ
ilization, was contemplated. Hence our
civilization and all other civilizations
are more or less responsible for the
inevitable extinction of the race. A
curious mathematical coincidence lay
in the above proof of mans decline in
stature and age. Thus the stature o.
man in a few more than 5000 years
according to Hale's chronology being
the age of the human race, and accord.
ing to my deductions, has decreased
from 65 to 5 feet, at which rate of &c
crease the world will be %depopulateC
in 461 years, or the year 1862. The ag,
Of man has likewise decreased from
900 to 20 years in the same time, a
which rate the race will become ex
tinct in about 461 years, or the yea
1862. AS you observe, both deduction
reach the same conclusion. There ma.
be an element of truth in this theory
at least 1t is worth probing. Tn
great trouble with us today is that W
are too easily satisfied; we lack tn
ability and energy to figure out" o
search for evidences of truth" an
instead, accept all kinds of theorie
and dogmas as they are presented t
us, surrounded mostly by a halo q
fanaticism, impossible and absurd.