Show AM1LM NCIIINCES One of this tendencies of the present age la to telfglorlflcatlon on account of the enormous progress made In the domains of arts and sciences Tbo supposition la that this generation la no far advanced Intellectually as to tender I ten-der all comparison out of the question Once In a while rye of light from tho dim antiquity reveal the existence of civilizations In remote times of which but a faint Idea can be had now and It I la I certainly curious to find from those that this ancient Saying There II I nothing new under theauu couve > s more literal truth than some might Imagine An EI t Indian sage has recently Issued n Historical review ot the Attar medical science and In this be make sotno assertions considered rather 01111 startling He claims that some ol the great modern discoveries In medicine were known to the HluJoos centuries ago and among theio are vaccination and the use 01 anailhetlca He Claim I that 10 Ayur Veda Ono of 1 the oldest books on medical science all the modern I mod-ern methods diagnosis are set forth The circulation of Ibo blood the dig covcry of which Is I attributed to liar vey be claims was known to Ibo author ol this Vca anti 1 be adds that i dolUcte operations iuppoed to have I liven unkniwn until 1 fitly years ago were performed lu India thousand of ieU BILCe 14 1 1 I Naturally these and similar assertions will bo received with eaution but it Is well known that some of the ancient noUn had attained a high decree of ciX clvlllutioll and that much of Western cloneo woo known 10 tile alIot dy ol men Emperor Nero la ealct to have had a ring In which was mt a gem through which Le 1 watched the cjuteil of the gladiators In the rloga kInd it opera clan evidently Tbe micro copo must have hun know long before our eta A precious stone ono the property of Michael Angelo Is faid to have engraved 00 II seven human figures which can lIly be seen plainly throinrli a microscope From tile ruin of Nineveh a stone ha btun ccivend twenty Inclua long and tell 11 I i ches broaJ on which a Treaties on mathematics Is I engraved Impossible to rnd10d conttfjltently also to write without the aid of n magnify hint glam In nrchltucturo soma nil lent tulldlnci are jet Impenetrable rujptrrler Lgyptlau archllccla knew i how to handle hk of rock weighing from 100000 to 800000 pounds and til place them In poilllou and fit turn one to another with such a do grant of preclil that not a knife bltdo ca to Icitrltd between them ruch tttlmonka from antiquity would seem to go far towards disproving some ol ho wild funnies olm ilern phlloiorhy cgardlug the barbarous condition rf urtarly ancestors TLuyehoull also suggest the Been city of using great caution In the crltl Ism ot the cacroJ literature on tho I ground that It onttlni allulloaa to modern arts and rolencar A row years ago n lecturer against ho Book of Mormon In true Infidel style stated that the law of tile circulation of tile blood was not known III alter the time of Harvey and that ho pores of the skin could not have been > discovered until after the Invention Ion of the microscope anti that therefore there-fore a certain sentence In the ancient record must bo a frI Should It however bo capable of demonstration has already the ancient Villa costs I u reference to these modern dlnooverlet skepticism Is I as usually unarmed be tote facts |