The Washington times., 1902-02-09
ADAM and EVE IN
THE ARCTIC ZONE
Professor Dyche Thinks Eden
Was at the North Pole.
EARLY HISTORY OF THE RACE
Hundreds of Thousands of Years
Before Biblical AccOunts-AnimnI
and Plant Life Constantly Moving
Southward. Followed by Nan.


After much careful study and two trips
to the polar regions, Louis Lindsay Dychc,
naturalist and professor of natural his
tory at the Kansas University, has ar
rived at the conclusion that the first hui
| man beings were born and lived in the
| Arctic zone. Prof. Dyche does not deny
that such Il place as the Garden of Eden
existed, but he says, if there was such Il
place, it existed 100000 years before the
lime covered by Biblical history. He has
made the following statement for the
Herald" based on his researches:
IF there was such a place as the Gar
den of Eden it was at the North Pole.
One hundred million years before man
could have lived on the earth plants and
animals lived in the Arctic zone. The
earth cooled first at the Poles. and. as
there was no land about the South Pole,
the plant and animal life existed about
the North Pole
Prehistoric Times in Greenland.
THE early history of the race can lie
read from the strata of fossils and rocks
in the Arctic zone. In the northern part
of Greenland are found veins of coal
Surely the country was warm enough
there at one time for plants to exist.
PerSimmon, elm, and sycamore trees grew
there. There was also a period when
palm trees fourished there, and the eli
mate must have been as warm as in tropi-
cal countries now.
''As the earth cooled the forms of plant
life began to move toward the equator
Those plants which were hardy and could
adapt themselves remained in the coun-
try, and so the migration of plant life
was very gradual. A person could 90
into the northern part of America now
and draw an imaginary line from ocean
TO ocean, Just on the verge of the tree
country. and north of that line no trees
will grow.
That line could be drawn much far
ther south now than it might have been
twenty years ago. That is because the
tree line is moving south There is a
place north of which no wheat or cereals
will grow and ripen. and this line is grad
ually moving south. The lines north Of
which the different plants will not grow
are gradually moving south. and have
been moving in that direction for thou
sands of years.
Animals Follow Plant Life.
"As the plant life moved south the ami.
mails which subssted on these plants fol
lowed them. Many varieties of animals
and plants had moved south on these mi.
sratory waves and disappeared before
man existed.
1t was millions OF years after the earth
began to cool before man grew from a
little cell, into human being. branches
OF the human family took different routes
when they left the North Pole. and fol-
lowed the plants and animals south. Some
adapted themselves to the changing con-
1itions in the polar regions. and their
descendants 1--we there to this day. The
people who are in that country now never
went there from farther south.
1T is folly 20 tell a person who has
been through there that the Arctic High
landers. for instance, who live farther
north than any other humans, were
driven there by the inhabitants of more
southerly countries. Why would they go
so far beyond plant and animal life If
they were driven north? They could have
stopped where wood for fire was plenty
ana still have been north of their enc
mics.
Origin of Man.
THE facts are that they have lived
where they are for thousands of years
They live between the 10Th and 18th par
allels of latitude. and have probably
come from farther north.
People who deny that man is evolved
from lower form of life are confronted
with serious problem when il comes to
proving their statement. Man. according
to our most learned men, developed from
lower form of life, but. not from an'ape
or monkey. The apes and monkeys are
but variations of the line. The animal
from which man is evolved has become
extinct.
There is a greater difference between
the highest and lowest type of human be-
ing than there is between the lowest
human and the highest type of ape That
is plain TO any person who will compare
Newton or Shakespeare with the Hotten-
tot. who cannot count the arrows in his
culver, and then compare the HoItentot
with the highest type of ape
AeOns to Effect Changes.
Il have found species of big white
rabbit in North Greeland, and there is a
fowl there similar to our quail. Those
animals were not driven to that country;
they were there thousands of years ago
and have become adapted to the cooling
process.
THE zone Of plant life is coming south
TamarGck, spruce, birch, and such trees
now grow in Canada and in regions
farther north. They will be driven south
until they will grow in this country. 1t
is change which it will require thou
sands of years TO bring about.
And as these trees and plants which
grow there move south the animals which
live among them and depend upon them
for subsistence will come with them. 1t
requires only trip from here TO the
North Pole or the Arctic zone to convince
n person that human and plant life are
and have for ages and ages been NOV
ing south in migratory waves. New
York Herald.
MISS DE RoTHSCHILD'S GARDEN.