The Washington herald., 1922-02-12
By +. III. W. CLARK.

in thtS case Is TepreSented as coming
from Louis A0dssi<, famous naturalist.
By +. III. W. CLARK.
The Agassiz Museum of Natural
History of Harvard University is
the fruitful product of unremitting
labor in scientific research Of many
of the greatest biologists and nat
uralists. Primarily it's origin IS
due to the famous Swiss scientist,
the late Rudolphe Louis AgassiZ.
whose affiliation with Harvard came
to a sudden close in 1873. Time can
never effact from memory the re-
suits of his widespread researches
which his own untiring nature per-
sisted in pursuing until the end.
Let those who would deny a sur
viving existence be silent and those
who declaim that Saul sinned in
calling up the spirit of Samuel be
still while are recorded the reyela-
tions of Professor AgassiZ:
Research into prehistoric condi-
tions among those who had lived in
unrecorded epochs, conducted in CO.
operation with Alexander Won Hum
boldt, have resulted in discoveries
of far-reaching import.
These relate to a period antedat-
ing the Neolithic age, which we
have computed to have been about
400, 900 years ago, when man roam
ed in a barbarous state through
what is now Southern Asia. East
ern Africa and that great body of
land called Carton. since sunken.
which forms the basin of the Indian
Ocean.
Cause of Sinking UnknOwn.
To determine the cause of the
disappearance of the vast body of
land is beyond the ken of man but
the significant fact of it's having
been an inhabited area of enormous
proportions will furnish the key to
the scientific solution of anthropo-
logical questions which have vexed
modern research.
Let us begin with the affirmation
that man at this carry period was
not of the gorilla species. He bore
marked evidence of distinct origin
and may we'll be classified as the
precursor Of the Stone Age. His
sustenance was obtained by little
labor. his raiment was negligiDIe
and his duration of life was often
as much as 400 years of thirteen lu-
mar months each. A native instinct
to reverse the sun and totally ig-
more the value Of human life, cou-
pied with strife. were the chief OBJ
jects of his existence. Behind this
period of time one may only permit
speculation to roam without hope
of definite knowledge.
At a period approximating 100000
years ago, the Stone Age of man
had evolved wherein came into prac-
tice the use OF flint to produce fire.
This advance in knowledge was
deemed so mysterious that the peo-
pies revered those who at first prac-
ticed the production of fire, or.st-
mating the beginning of fire worship.
Vast multitudes gathered to see
these exhibitions which struck
many at first with so great terror
that multitudes died of fright Fire
gradually came into use as an
agent to control man by fear and is
yet held in august awe by the low
est order OF barbarians.
Architecture Came Next.
After the lapse Of more than 1oo,-
900 years further, man developed a
crude knowledge of architecture IN
stone, erecting hewn walls, circu-
lar to copy the ountline OF the sun.
and angular as representing the
varying shadow lines cast by the
suns rays, yet open to the skies.
The center of this semi -civilizat tion
was upon the lost continent. of
which Eastern Africa. Babylonia
and present British India with Cey-
Ion. Sumatra. Java and other ad-
jacent islands were an integral part
although Australia was not joInec
to Carton.
About 10000 years ago the end
of the world came to Carton in such
seismic Disturbances as never be-
fore had been known to barbaric
man. The stupendous Himalayas,
the heights and erags of Europe
were thrown up in the earth's con-
vulsions while the center of exist
ent civilization became an irregu-
lar basin into which rushed the wa
ters now called the indian Ocean
and at this time the Mediterranean
assumed its present form. The peo-
Piles dwelling in Africa, smaller in
numbers as compared with those
totally exterminated, survived the
holocaust, remaining to
become the prosecutors of migra-
tion which have since cempassed
the earth Contrary to popular
theories. these ancient dispersions
radiated from what IS now Egypt
and at a period about 10000 years
after the lost continent was en-
gulfed. They carried with them the