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Show The Height of Our Ancestor!. Although it is needless to tell readers that all speculations upon this matter are without foundation, it is curious to find in a work published in 1718 by a member of the French Academy of Sciences Sci-ences the following statements. According Ac-cording to this author, Adam was 123 feet 9 inches in height, while Eve's stature stat-ure is asserted to have been 118 feet 9 inches and 9 lines. Noah, we are told, attained a height of only 27 feet; Abraham Abra-ham was barely 20 feet in stature, while Moses is alleged to have measured only 13 feet in height. J. N. Eallock in Christian at Work. , |