The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-05-14

stature
Al various times within the last CEN
tary assertions have been made that
ADAM and the antediluvian people
were Of extraordinary height. but the
assertions have always been laughed
-p"n py scolfers who never think for
themselves IN IT'S Henrion, a mem-
pei q the French Academy OF Sciences.
tA1iiehed a pamphlet in which he as
serted that these personages Of the BIZ
r'r We're Of the following height:
Aaam, i2S feet inches; Eve, lis feet
inches; Noah. n feet, Abram. 20
feet, and Moses. Is feet. 1 too, said a
seientiic student OF the Bible, in speak
lns q this matter recently. am con-
Afmed Ii the belief that the prehis-
toric races were gigantic. but figure
out their statures. by a process Of rea-
soning different from that promulgated
py Henrion. According to the Old
testament there were giants on earth |
~ 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
We're said to be but grasshoppers.
t0rasshoppers Of that period were as
large as the twentieth century dog.)
ine Emmins and Zamzummains were
giant nations Og. the king Of Bash
en- remained Of the remnant Of giants;
Goliath Of Gath, was a giant" Ac-
coruins to Genesis Noah lived $50
years and then died The average life
oi man today is about 70 years. II is
wei defined rule in nature that anil
mails. bipeds and quadrupeds live about
three and one-half times the number
oi years required for individual matu-
rity. Thus man in this century ma
lures Ia twenty years and dies at the
age Of 20 years Dividing the age OF
Noah BY three and one-half we find
lnat he matured in about 270 years.
The average man Of today at maturity
measures about feet and weighs 125
pWnds. Five feet in twenty years is
equivalent 70 inches in one year.
Applying the same rule to Noahs ma
turing years we find that at his ma
lurity he was 81 feet tall and weighed
1873 pounds. 1t stands to reason that
u Noah was so great In body. Adam
must have been equally as large. The
mere fact that Adam was never born
'vidences that be was a gigantic man.
everything created during the forma-
ion ages was according 10 a very
afee standard The trees were sky
crapers. the animals immense and all u
'ther things In proportion. Why should
adam have been a freak in this array
4 colossal nature? Civilization and /,
Of the races diminish 4
he lives Of individuals as wen as the =
iatures. Why? Possibly because our 4
Utilization Is an unnatural perversion "
( the life contemplated BY our Crea- y
pr for us, and as free agents we are Y
radually destroying the race as a PEN :, q
lty for our wrong Interpretation Of y
or mission The power to multiply =
aving been given us, death is a natu- -
n consequence. but death by natural ~
ocay. instead Of death by disease m -
lime, war, pestilence. results Of civ ~ =,
lzation. was contemplated Hence our =,
vilization and all other civilizations as
Re more or less responsible for the -
evltable extinction OF the race. e
lrious mathematical coincidence lay ..I
the above proof Of mans decline in
ature and age Thus the stature OF -
an in a few more than 5000 sears. -
cording to Hales chronology being Z
e age Of the human race, and accord =
& to my deductions, has decreased -
om GO to feet, at which rate Of de-
ease the world will be depopulated y.
461 years, or the year 1852. The age ~ -,
man has likewise decreased from 81
to 20 years in the same time. at ~
lich rate the race will become ex-
lct ia about 461 years, or the year
81 As you observe. both deductions
lch the same conclusion. There may nil
an element OF truth in this theory. ro'
least II IS worth probing. The tic
Eat trouble with US today is that we cal
3 too easily satisfied; We lack the mi
ility and energy to figure out" or fol
sarch for evidences OF truth" and Pa
itead, accept all kinds Of theories qul
dogmas as they are presented to LAD
surrounded mostly by a halo OF at
laticism. impossible and absurd. cor
ins
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