West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-07-16
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For pangless she bore us and pangless
returns US TO nothing AGAIN"
Our subjec, is too great for space allotted.
ye, we propose a few suggestive facts 10
| opposition to the hundred theories eneysied
In suPers,itions, aud impregnated with the
life germs of popular religions. in the hope
Of assisting the thoughtful reader TO a cor
rect reading Of the scientific records Of mans
occupancy Of the earth and Of the Bible
account of his birth, his history and future
destiny.
Outside of the Bible human history in
unbroken and reliable order has its BEGIN
ming when the Lord gave the dominion of
the earth to the King of Babylon and his
GENTLE successors, who should by conquest
obtain universal rule and all nations should
serve them or perish from the earth. This
Was z5zo years ago the lease of power 10
continue until the lesson of experience in
this line shall be complete and needs no
repetition forever. Prior to this lease we
may speak of man as prehistoric in the
sense that the records are broken, traditionary
mans birth and history, beginning seven
thousand yeansbefore the earth could be
fitted for his established home, and from
the day that he was driven forth from the spe-
cially prepared garden-situated somewhere
In the then temperate belt-his course has
been sorrowful in the extreme. Though It
| meyer could have entered the mind of the
Creator TO torture his creature, yet His
strict justice had condemned him 10 death
and man could offer no terms which God
could accept; his case was utterly hopeless
unless Divine wisdom and love could find
way to propitiate justice.
Our text tells us distinctly that man is
compelled abroad from the plains of Shinar
upon all the face of the earth. AS il was
before the cataclysm that covered the
frigid and temperate zones with grinding
glaciers and the tropical with water de-
stroying everything that lived on land. as
evidenced in the diluvium deposits of that
epoch. So, again the convict must 90 forth
to his death with all the mighty forces of
nature at work against him, not by design
but because he was ouicast amid the conflict
between order and chaos
Human skeletons found beneath the floors
of limestone caves in Europe and America
are we'll within the 5000 years of history
from Eden. The Chalybeate waters to-day
contain as high as from IS to 20 grains of
solid constituents in one pint Of the water.
The Navajo Mineral Springs of Colorado
have temperature of so degrees Fair,
and except for the sake of the theory we are
criticizing, mo scientist would claim more
than few centuries at most for the
caleareous deposits that entomb the bones
of "Palaeolthic man. from waters so
charged with petri6c substance. BY the
same process human bodies are petnhed
within the memory af their own generation;
and by process sitnilar the living human
flesh has been displaced by calcareous
deposits aud the living man been turned TO
bone until the arteries could no longer
maintain their function and death ensues.
The forming of the shell of an egg in a
few hours, and the formation and growth of
bone. The petri6caiion of wood. fruit, leaves
and other substance, are simple but sicnIfi-
cant testimony that no, geologic eras. but
local. conditions are the necessities TO trans
formations the most wonderful and complete.
No domestic animals no pottery, and only
the bones of animals that persisted in the
glacial epoch, with weapons and implements
OF rough stone arc found in the caves of
palaeolthic man, and from this il is reasoned
that pottery was not yet known, though the
| other thought is overlooked, the absence of
the domestic animal is not accounted for
| although geology shows its co-existence
earliest dawn Of all existent mammal life.
These findings simply mean that such CLASH
iication into periods of time in mans history
is wholly arbitrary, and that in the wa nder-
ing, struggling, driving, condition Of man
| IN periods when whole continents were
liable to displacement and destruction and
even up To very recent times many civiliza-
tions were co-existent. The Indians of
| North America were in the stone age at the
dawn Of fThe day of preparation for mans
release, while the glory of high utilization
had just sunk away from the same CONT
nent. These never had a "Bronze Age,
nor were they progressing towards the per-
lection supposed in the evolution theory.
They are the remnants of a former clyiliza-
ton from which they wandered, and to-
| gether with all other remnants of conquered
people are perishiug from the earth. Unless
the conquered peoples become assimiIated
with their victors, their glory sinks forever,
their civilization perishes, aud their arts are
lost until undiscovered.
The Africa Of today is pre.exis,ent
world awaiting rediseoyery. It's great
Sahara is an ancient sea bottom, not a level
plain, but with mountains whose tops arc
covered with marine shells. Il evidently
rose as the continent Of Atlantis on It's west
went down, carrying to destruction mighty
| civilization IN the glacial era.
The finding of skeletons Of "NeaoIi,hie
man" along with domestic animal remains
and implements Of polished stone, pottery
etc, marks him as a remnant Of recent pre-
historic times whose condition and modes Of
life were much better and more peaceful
than when the monster mammals numbered
the earth, bui subject to the fury Of forces
that executed the sentence and left no
other record than a few bones commineied
with the refuse Of his sunken cities.
| Within the memory OF man, Southern
Europe has been submerged, the land
between Great Britain and Scandinavia.
the coast Of China The land between the
Falkland Islands, and others IN the same
vicinity On the other hand other lands
nave emerged. as Tor example the State Of
iiinois SO too within recent periods many