Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-06
WAS EVE ORIGINAL OF SPECIES
Extraordinary Contention of Welt
Known Biologist.

tYe-the original of the species-the
first human beings?
Was Eve ON earth III advance of
Adam or any OTHER man, and did she
cnicy the responsibilities incident to
state and condition wherein and where
Of the male of the species had no part.
not beifg present either in person or by
raeXy?
Was Ewes appearance falisWed by
another Of her sex. and she by Il third,
and so ON without a break in the sex
order, thus making the Garden at the
beginning and for ages thereafter the
exclusive and supposedly contented
haaitation If femnity?
Something to talk about-especiall
for women.
Or. Paul :. Hunter. physician with
2 mind keen for investigation and re-
search, whose faith in biology is un-
shaken by argument or controversy,
publicly asserts that Eve not only an
tedated Adam but that women ruled
the universe unhampcred by man un=
t.! with the lapse Of time. il was cs-
tablished in order suited to the time
Thereafter came man-came man
when tie mchine of primary cililiza-
ton was already in notion came man
with the assumption of superiority
came man as the advance agent of The
great world drama.
And the Adamless Eden was no more
Something to talk about-maybe fol
men, too.
DR.. Hunter S member of the Wis
consin State Board of Health. is well
=.
is progressive mind. Approaching
popularity accepted theory with de-
termined negative he has more. than
ence reduced it to q mere fragment of
controversy. He finds delight in such
work
Ewes sex at first ruled the uni
verse" he says. Then man came and
finally developed the stronger body and
che brute force which enabled MIN to
take control Consequently it was easy
fer him to begin bossing and taking
credit for what he had done
Man did not stop at that. Possibly
IN heroic pose, as if waiting for the tri-
umnh laurel To be set upen his brow.
ne made claim To be the one very con-
siderable achievement of tho time. He
claimed the creation of woman says
Or. Hunter and in this science disputes
him.
Axioms are fer the most part accept
ed in silence. Truth is no spur to the
tongue. Real impetus is given To con-
versation when that which is asserted
is destined from the start to remain
improved to universal satisfaction and
the subject Of the eontroverted point
cannot be Summoned fer helpful ex
plantations.
As in the case of Eve, as in the case
ef Adam
Excepting possibly the tariff aud
he m9oted point as To who struck Bill
II Patterson, the latter carrying with
II the assumption that Patterson WAS
struck. there being no proof. the re-
lation of Adam and of Eve to the race
question is / theme which is now ap-
preached not only from the standpoint
of biology but OF geology, horticulture
and ethnoloSy.
Science. or independent investiga-
tors without science, would take both
Adam and Eve out of Genss and re-
duce them to MYTHS or symbols. Or
arrange them in a new order, or
change everything about.
The Garden of Eden has been dis
covered To the satisfaction of a num-
Der of earnest minds at dozen diff
fercnt places. including Yazoo County,
Mississippi, and the San Luis Valiey,
California. while other investigators
have taken the statistics of fruit
growing t. show that the apple which
carried with it temptation might have
been some other fruit. probably the
citrus of the lemon family.
Irrigation specialists have convinced
themselves that the Eden of the
Bible could not have been fruitful. aud
iii an address before the Federated
Womens clubs of Minnesota one wo-
man expressed the belief that
ptomaines never would have happened
If there had not been ON the part of
Adam such easerness to munich the
apple.
Something 70 talk about and forever
To remain unsettled.
Addressing the annual convention Of
Associated Fraternities Of America not
long ago, Dr. +. d. Quick said that at
least some OF the human ills which
increase the sick benefits of the orders
could no doubt lie traced to Adam
himself. Living in time before
sanitation. mosquito screens and pa
iamas, Adam was probably not over
robust, and then the removal of a rib
could not have done him any good.
This was of course merely light
speculation intended to carry a point.
quite otherwise is the recently eX
pressed opinion Of Sir William Wilcox,
British Adviser >the Turkish Minis
ter of Public Works. After study
of The territory from the sea coast to
he Holy Land Sir William gave it as
his belief that the killing of Abel by
his brother cam was the outgrowth of
a family feud.
cain was a farmer and Abel a shep-
herd The water supply of the valley.
according to SIR William. was not suffi-
cient to provide drink for the grazing
hocks and moisture for growing crops.
| Each brother sought to divert the in
considerable water flow to his own use.
| In anger at this the brothers fought
and enc fell 4 victim TO the other, thus
| introducing tragedy into early his
tory bu; not correcting the water sit