| Show ANCIENT CIVILIZATION Time The London Telegraph peul of tho the marvelous finds Ands by Prof Flinders Petrie In ht Egypt I argues In favor of o the somewhat common proposition that It 11 necessarily must be almost unthinkably long ages ng since tho the first dawn daun of civili civilization appeared Prot Prof Petrie hums has re 10 recently told tho the story tory about some come of ot these discoveries At for In hi Instance stance once the capital and nIl chief seat scat of oC learning of 1 the tho th explorers found tho Ito remains of ten successive temples ono one over oel time tho other ath r From tho Iho ago ngo of ot the Iho ho first temple u 11 group graul of oC about two hundred objects watt teas as found A part of ot a n largo large glazed pottery r vase of Mena the tho first nral Kins of the tho First I lr t Dynasty showed that that oven even then they were tank mak makIng lug Ing glaze on ti a 1 considerable scale anti also Inlaying It with n second color An ivory carving was vas astonishingly flue fine finen fluen n figure of a n king kin showing a It subtlety and power of or expression ns till good ns as any work of at later ages agell Speaking of ot these finds the Iho Telegraph says SUS that lint an on Ivory statuette of WOO U B C the builder of ot lime tho great found the tho only known portrait of him hint anti then lion asks Making every possible pl nl al for tor tho the marvelous rapidity of or art development must not ninny many thou of years have rolled over between tho the pristine dwellers In the Nile valley and the men amen who carved Ivory statu statuettes statuettes ettes riles and manufactured glazed work Inlaid with second colors It Is Ilia a long long lung march from rain Hint Implements to u the temple Ivory hory statuettes and hu human hUe man portraits We Wo have no quarrel with those who believe that lint Usher Calmet and others were In their calculations for tor or which no one ever oer claimed Infallibility Hut But nt ol the tho same time line the argument embodied In the tho question just quoted quote though commonly current Is remarkably weak for tor the Important service expected 1 of or It It Is IR not necessary to allow thousands of years between the prism Inc dwellers In hu the time silo Nile Valley alley and the Uie t mum men who carved caned Ivory hor statuettes I we Wl suppose that Ihal tho rho latter carne came ns as Immigrants from rem other country brought broil Chi their arts lut and civilisation with them then Our own country furnishes obI proof of title tills tact oel In iii the lime transformation motion mation of the country In four centuries from coma th the land of the IhA Indian and Inti the buffalo to that of the present tiny day Thousands 1 of or years hence an in exploring party may find on the site alte of Washing Washington ton some Indian Implements stile Kid hl by elfin of o remain remains of o the evidences tit lit f or But Dut they th would Cel bo be wrong wron If I they hey were re to contend that of 0 mint mut be bo allowed ved for tor the evolution of an All Indian ax Into a 1 an Sri Indian bow and arrow Into a n aMA Maxim MA gun Bun and ami an Indian canoe Into a And Ind yet et tint list U Is the logic eagle eaglesome some scientists of today apply to an am We Se eoe oe no reason r uon why we should not riot Accept the rumors more rational view Ie that wa brought limbo Into In III the seine name way It was wait brought lIr Into title country from other pert parti 1111 of or the world since Its It dl discovery ov ry bv b In this thin III I way flY n a 1 ma matton malion lion In n short hort Urn Ilme may Inay bB b ration rationally ally Illy accounted account c t R |
