Show THE AGE OF THE some have not hesitated seriously ton scribe to our forefather adam I 1 lie light of nine hundred yards i and nd t the ll 11 0 age of almost a thousand homand years bat the accurate and rational investigation ato 9 it modern r philosophy has con the hi supposed bones bonca or of giants found in ill dil different parts of the earth into those of the elephant and no coroi anil and acute theolo girts sta have nave sho shown that the chronology of thip the early ages was waa not the same as aa t that hat used at present some particularly hensler have proved with the highest probability that the year car till the time of abrahana abraham consisted of only three mouths months that it was wa afterward extended to eight and that it was vas not till ill lie ho time of joseph that hat it was ss mado made to consist of twelve these assertions sert ions are ia a certain degree cou call firmed ly by some gome of the ibe eastern nations who still reckon only three months to tho the year and besides it il would he inexplicable why the lifo life 0 of f man should have been shortened one half immediately after the flood it would be equally inci ipox why the tha patriarchs did not marry till their sixtieth seventieth and even hundredth year but this difficulty vanishes when we ree reckon k on those these ages according to the before mentioned standard which will give the twentieth or thirtieth ye yea ranil arand 0 tl lie simo same periods at which p a 0 marry at present the hole therefore according to this explanation assumes a different appear acco the till sixteen silken years acari before tile the hood flood will become four hundred and fourteen and the nine hun bun dred years the highest recorded w which i lived will ve all basic ducca to two hundred an age which is a not aal aol to which some game morlin modern ti nearly bearly approached preached pro ached af |