Daily camera., 1901-10-10

At various times within the last CEN
tury assertions have besn made that
Adam and the antsdiluvian people
were Of extrasslinary height, but the
assertions have always been laughed
down BY ssoRsrs who mover think for
themselves. In IT'S Heorion, . mem-
Der Of the French Academy Of Sciences,
published = pamphlet in which he as
serted that these personaSes Of the b.
Bile were Of the following height:
Adam, 1923 feet . inches; Eve, lis feet
> inches: Noah. 27 feet. Abram. 20
feet, and Moses, 10 feet I. too, said .
student Of the Bible, in speak
ing Of this matter recentG'. am con-
frmed In the belief that the prehis-
toric races were gigantic. but figure
out their staturss. by . process Of rea-
soning different from that promulgated
BY Henrion. According to tho Old
Testament there were giants on earth
In those days whose daughters were
married to the sons Of God. and whose
sons bscame mighty men. Also, the
sons Of Anak, in whose sight mon
were said to be but grasshoppsrs.
(Grasshoppsrs Of that period were as
large ~ 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 q giant" Ac-
cording to Genesis. Noeh lived $50
years and then died. The average life
ot man today II about 70 years. 1t 10
q we'll defined rule in nature that AMI
mails, bipeds and Quadrupsds 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 ons-half we ind
that he matured In about 270 years.
The average man Of today at maturity
measures about 8 feet and weighs 125
pounds. Five feet In twenty years Is
equivalent to 3 inches In one year.
Applying the same rule to Noah's ma
turing years. We ind that at his ma
turity he was 81 feet tall and weighed
l 1875 pounds. It stands to reason that
II Noah was 20 great In body. Adam
must have been equally a. large. The
mere fact that Adam was never born
evidences that he was gigantic man.
Everything created during the forma-
tion ages was according to very
large standard. The trees were sky
scrapers. the animals immense and all
other things In proportion Why should
Adam have besn q freak In this array
Of colossal nature? Civilization and
of the races diminish
the lives Of individuals as well as the
statures. Why? Possibly because our
10 IN unnatural perversion
Of the life contemplated by our Crea-
tor for Us, and as free agents We are
gradually destroying the race a. a pen
atty for our wrong Interpretation Of
our mission. The power to multiply
having been given US. death is q natu-
raj consequence. but death by natural
decay. instead Of death by disease.
crime. war. pestilence. results Of CIV
iliIation, was contemplated. Hence our
and all other civilizations
are more or less responsible for the
extinction OF the race. A
curious mathematical coincidence lay
In the above proof Of mans decline in
stature and age. Thus the stature Of
man In q 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 S. to 5 feet, at which rate of de-
crease the world will be depopulated
in 46l yeers, or tho year 1854. The age
i man has likewise decreased from
800 to 10 years in the same time. at
which rate the race will become ex-
tinct In about 461 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 II 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 a. they are presented to
us, surrounded mostly by q halo Of
impossible and absurd.