The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-05-17
OUR GIANT FATHERS.
HOW TALL WE'RE MEN OF
ANCIENT T!MES2
one Authority Figure, out rhat Adam
was Man isa Fcot In Height, I've
Ills Fect-froof Of Mans Decline In
stature

At various times within the last con.
fury assertions have been made that
Adam and the nntcdiluvian people
were OF extraordinary height but the
assertions have always been laughed
down by sconers who never think Tor
themselves. In i7lS Hcnriun a mem
Der OF the French academy Of Sciences
published pamphlet In which he as
serted that these percentages OF the III
bic were Of the following height
Adam. 1913 feet . inches. Eve. IFS feet
. 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
firmed In the belief that the prehis-
toric races were gigantic but figure
out their stRtures. 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.
(Grashoppers OF that period were AZ
large as the twentieth century dogD
The Emmina and Zamzummains were
giant nations. Og. the king Of Bash
an. remained Of the remnant OF giants;
Goliath. OF Gath. was giant" Ac-
cordlng TO Genesis. Noah lived $50
years and then died. Tho average life
of man today Is about 20 years. II Is
"A well defined rule In nature that ami
mails. bipods 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 20 years. Dividing the age OF
Noah by three and one-half we find
that he maturod In about go years.
The average man OF today az maturity
measures about feet and weighs 1875
pounds. Five feet in twenty years IL
equivalent to inches In one year.
Applying the same rule to Noah's ma
turing years. we find that at his ma
turlty he was 81 feet tall and weighed
1876 pounds. II stands TO reason that
II 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-
ton ages was according TO very
large standard. Tho trees were sky
scrapors. the animals immense and all
other things In proportion. Why should
Adam have been freak In this array
of. colossal mature = oivili---sion aud
multiplication OF the races dimininb
the lives OF individuals as well as tho
statures. why7 Possibly because our
civilization Is an unnatural perverHion
OF the life contemplated by our Crea.
tor for us, and as free agents we are
gradually destroying the race as n 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
lllzatlon. 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 oi
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 Go to feet, at which rate OF de-
crease the world viii be depopulated
In 46l years. or the year 2362 The ago
OF man has likewise decreased from
300 10 20 years In the same time. at
which rate the race will become ex-
tinct In about iGi years, or the year
1862. As you observe. both deductions
reach the same conclusion. There may
be an element OF truth In this theory,
at least II is worth probing The
great trouble with us today Is that We
are too easily satisfied. we lack the
ability and energy TO figure out" or
search for evidences OF truth" and
instead, accept all kinds OF theories
and dogmas as they are presented 10
us. surrounded mostly by a halo OF
fanaticism, impossible and absurd.