Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-10-10
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
A GERMAN PROFESSOR SAYS IT
WAS IN AUSTRALIA.


WAS IN AUSTRALIA.
II Is Not Always Safe. However. to Base b
lief on Theory-The Hammer Of the lcono
elastic Materialist Often Crushes to Du,
the Most Plausible Deductions Of Dreamers
The cradle Of humanity has been 10
Gated more than once. More than on
anthropologist has staked out q littl
section Of the globe and has said
This was Eden" But now anothe
scientist has used certain premises a
compass and certain theories as
chain, and has surveyed a new portion
OF the world and has located q new
nursery.
| Australia is the new Eden and Prof
Schoetensack OF Heidelberg is its dis
cover. His conclusions were present
ed to the Berlin Anthropological so
ciety At . recent meeting. The meth
DDS by which they were reached are
as interesting as the conclusions them
selves.
The anthropologist began with the
assumption that during the geological
ages tho brain of man was developins
and his body was extremely feeble. Al
this time there were beasts Of great
strength and agility which would have
made the development Of race weal
physically impossible.
With this assumption fixed Prof
Schoentensack, with his knowledge oI
the various forms of life which existed
at various times on the globe, began to
count out the regions whore it would
have been impossible for man to have
been nourished.
America, Europe, Asia and Africa
were quickly put out OF consideration
IS there existed on these continent.
animals which would have destroyed
every trace of human life in extremely
short order.
Life could not have been sustained
at the northern or southern extremi.
ties of the globe because OF the cold.
The brain OF man At this time was no,
sufficiently developed to enable him to
discover fire, and he could not have
warmed himself. Tho only place men
could have existed where ferocious
beasts lived would have been in the
trees, and il they had led such life
the result would have been . four.
handed instead OF . two-handed race.
Every one Of the scientisl's premiees
forces the conclusion that men were
developed in some cline where the
temperature was moderate, where food
was easily obtained, and where life was
not . continual struggle against ami.
malls superior physically.
Such being the case, the anthropol,
ogist finds but one place answering
that description. That is Australia
At ono time this may have had con
nection with southern Asia. Here
man may have been nourished and de.
vsloped, he reasons. It is safe from
carnivorous beasts which could threat.
en- the existence of men.
Such carniv0rous animals % existed
on the island or continent we're toe
email TO be . danger. The dingo OF
wild dog. now known to have existed
there with prehistoric man, was not q
dangerous foe. One Of the marsupials
was carnivorous, but it was neither
large enough nor strong enough IA
have been = danger at any time.
There was an abundance OF food
easily procured, and the climate was
tempered to . weak race. There more
easily than anywhere else the art ol
making fire might have been discov'
cred.
Australia also lacks the dense for.
ests which might have produced an
arbofeal race, but it is pointed out that
the tall Australian trees would be cal
culated to produce just such hands
and feet as the human race actuall,
has.
All these theories have led Prof
Schoetensack to pronounce with posi-
tiveness that Australia was the Grad Il
Of the race and that it was the garden
Of Eden.
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