Show Tile XU3II5EII OF THE thRill IT is commonly supposed that intermingling with the soil of avery earths surface very large portion of the face are the ashes of human remains re-mains Upon tubs assumption is against brscd a favorite argument resurrection to the cflVct that the substance that once composed human bodies has become so thoroughly j thor-oughly and in such large proportion pro-portion commingled with the soil dial to raise those bodies would be to raise a great part of the surface In beau layers of the earth itself titS that have long been thickly populated Jlut the notion that tile earth is one vast human cemetery is utterly erroneous as is shown In a paper written by W C Prime L IIIJD and published in the New York Journal of Commerce from which we take the following TIio population oC the earth is now about 1500003000 Suppose the human race to have existed for 6000 years and to have been always as great as now In fiOOO tours yon have 00 centuries In each century yon may count three generations of mankind man-kind or one hundred and eighty generations gen-erations all each being a generation of 1500000003 Now lay oct a come tery for one generation It will be a Imo estlmate to give to every man woman and child a grave five feet by two or ten square feet You want for your grave yard then 15003000030 square feet of ground A square mile contain ramething ins than 2SOXtOO square feet You want then a graveyard grave-yard not Jo mile long by 10 wide for yonrwhole generation Now multiply this by ISO and you have your burial ground for 0030 years of mankind That is n strip of land 1800 miles long by 55 miles wide will be ample In other words a cemetery containing 100000 sqnaro miles would be sufficient suf-ficient for the entire human < to lie side by side The estimate which I have given you of continuous population popula-tion is obviously enormously large The estimate of Jthe size of each grave is very large A strictly correct estimate i esti-mate would reduce the size of the required re-quired cemetery more than onehalf But enormous as it is you could layout lay-out your burialground for all man who have lived on earth so tint hey could lie side by side in Arizona or in California or you could lay it out in Texas large enough to accommodate I the race of 0000 years past and also the race for 0000 years yet to come all slee > ng in the soil of tljat one State of this Union blot someone some-one says the race of man has been on earth 100WO years That is a pure imagination and there Is not so Car as I know a fact on which to rest it lint suppose it is true and suppose the population always what it now Is You have provided for OOK1 years of it You want nearly IT times as large a cemetery for the generations of a thousand centuries That it you want 1700 000 square miles in it Lay it out whenever you please 1700 miles lone by JOflu wide It is but a part of the United States And so enormously large have been the rough estimates thus far used it is safe to say that if the human race has been In existence 100000 years a separate grave could be provided for every individual of the race within part of the United Slates cast of the Mississippi Hivcr I The Iongoing was written without with-out any apparent intention of advocating advo-cating any doctrine of Scripture or religion but merely to correct in a scientific and irrefutable manner certain popular but erroneous idea The same writer continues in a somewhat curious strain showing that the amount of space actually In dispcnsible to the comfortable cx itcncejof demise population living human beings is not nearly so great as is generally supposed provided the city containing them be properly laid out and its buildings suitably constructed His conclusions evidently evi-dently have HO intended application to the city whom dimensions are described in the Apocalypse but they serve to illustrate what nn enormous population that city would accommodate |