The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-23
DELUGE END THE WORLD
IS GEOLOGICAL THEORY
NOT FIRE, MAY BE THE
AGENCY OF DESTRUCTION
OF THE EARTH.

Few subjects are more fascinating
than what Will the end OF the world be.
Win it come in u fiery cataclysm? Or,
viii heat die away and all life expire
under an intense cold? or Will there
be a deluge? Some leading biologists
have il that this last appears to be
more probable than either of the 9TH
ers. Maybe the history Of the earth
VIII repeat itself then, says the New
ork Herald.
When the antarctic ice cap began to
form aeons ago it commenced pulling
the waters of the world over the equa-
tor into the southern hemisphere.
There are prehistoric sea margins
which today reveal that the ocean once
stood at much higher level than it
does today. In British Columbia and
southward-along the Rocky noun
tains, Andes, and highlands of South
America-and on the mountain sides
ard SUBMITS OF the old world, these
teal records are found and every
where at an average Of a thousand
feet higher that at present
Change Center OF Gravity.
1t has been averred the enormous
mass of water now missing is con-
tanned in the ice cap of the Antarctic.
And the ice cap, increasing in i'm
mensity and weight, has slowly but
surely displaced the center of the
earths gravity to the southwark until
it is two or three miles from the posi-
ton held before the ice cap began to
accumulate
Some scientists deduce more than
that. The development they state of
the unreasonable glaciers at the south
pole is reaching the point which may
Immediately precede the eruption of
them into parts. Then at any time
after this danger has come about the
breaking up of those many billions OF
cubic miles of ice will let loose all the
accumulated waters OF the southern
hemisphere. And it comprises four
nfths of the entire waters of this
globe. These waters, when thus freed,
will set in a flow northward.
Flood Sweeps North.
They will surge across the equator.
bearing on their surface the gigantic
remains OF the antarctic ice caps. This
oceanic cataclysm Will gradually sweep
upon Australasia and Africa, and in
wade the low lying lands OF ASIA and
the Americas and Europe. These Will
be flooded hundreds OF fathoms deep,
and the ice fields still afloat remold
in their passage the higher contours OF
the deluged lands. only the mountain
tops can escape.
The disintegration OF the glaciers
and ice ranges of the antarctic spells
the end OF this world to all its inhabi-
ted continents. for the waters Will en-
gulf them. Mankind will flee to the
mountain tops And where for ages
all has been ice and snow, as at this
day a new hemisphere Will come into
existence, and life Will slowly evolve
itself once more.
But, may not something similar have
occurred in the primordial past, and
proceeded from the arctic? The del
uge, apart from the Biblical relation OF
it, is discredited in many quarters to-
lay. Yet there is no tradition 30 uni
yersal in general terms. 1t cannot be
accounted for on the hypothesis that
nations in the same stage of civiliza-
lion arrive at nearly the same results,
,or the tradition of a deluge has not
1een-and is not yet-confined to civ
lization. Nor is it to be accounted
or by immigrant influences from Asia,
nvading-say the Pacific region and
he Americas.
What did that good scientist the
ate Lord Salisbury, once say? That
cience is half imagination. But sci
nee is deadly accurate