Show UNWITTING WITNESSES i THE theory of evolution or the gradual unfolding of physical life supplemented by the unnatural and gruesome vagaries of darwinism came like a palladium of comfort and license to a corrupt and atheist lea generation in these pestilential vapors infidelity might feast and immorality could revel as congenial cauilan life jno in a death swamp but as electric flashes bashes purify the atmos phere and sunbeams sun beams dispel noxious vapors so have startling Art ling discoveries and the bursting forth of a ibold of pure light made wide drifts rifts in the clouds of error and shattered many a faucy fancy dream of truth smothering and false science the cherished theory of delving antiquarians is that man has existed upon the continent of america for hundreds of thousands of yel years that he has gradually advanced through a series of ive stages from a primitive crudity lower than that of the most abased brute that his ingenuity and natural capacity for invention and improvement developed with his growing perceptions of necessity and comfort this mist of murky vapors still bewilders many honest minds and regards retards the progress and useful efforts of archaeological researches it is one of the positive declarations of radical evolutionists that animals pec peculiar ullar to the primal status of life moved about upon the wild and desolate regions of america a million years before man made his appearance these animate animals were of the huge and uncouth types known as the mastodon miga therium the mylo dony and others all supposed to be extinct but in 1857 a fragment of a human skull was found associated with the bones of the mastodon in the auriferous gravel of table mountain california at a depth of one hundred and eighty feet dr C F winslow sent it to the natural HkA historical orical society of boston and a frag fragment mont was ateo also forwarded to the philological academy of natural science in 1866 another almost complete skull together with some other fragments of human remains was found AS announced by professor J D Wb whitney itney director of the government survey of california this relic is known as aa the calaveras talaveras Cala veras skau and beside it were found the tee remains remain of mammals fossilized wood and a land snail shell see whitney auri gravels of efser ser nv nor gravels of a similar kind and supposed date of deposit have yielded the bones of extinct animals the marquis de vidaillac nadaillac says there are deposits in california and oregon where the remains of elephants and mastodons might be had by the wagon load besides gigantic pachy we meet with extinct oxen hip arim and several kinds of horses it contains elms figs alders and other descriptions of trees land points stone hatchets mortals doubtless used for grinding grain and other kernels and bearing witness to the presence of man these have been found buried beneath beds of lava opre historic america page 42 whitney in reporting his discoveries to M says my chief interest now centers in the human remains and in the works from the hand of man that have been found in the tertiary strata of call california the existence of which I 1 haxe have been able to verify during the last few months evidence has now accumulated to such an extent that I 1 feel no hesitation in saying we have unequivocal proofs of the existence of man on the pacific coast prior to the period of the mastodon and the elephant you may rely upon my publishing this fact with all its details so soon as the necessary maps are engraved and I 1 have madea made a complete geological survey of the regions revue d anthrop 1872 page it is further claimed that as land heads and arrow points hatchets etc have been discovered near and mingled with the remains of these animals they were attacked and killed with them so that not only did man appear contemporaneously with them but that with these feeble weapons he succeeded in vanquishing qui shing his gigantic foes while trenches were being dug for gas pipes at a large city in one of the southern states about ten years ago the workmen work men came to a buried forest at a depth of sixteen feet amongst the trunks of trees and fragments of burned wood lay a human skeleton the discovery drew the attention of curious scientists enlists ts who commenced to speculate as to the length of time the trees had been buried doctor bennet dawley gave it as his opinion that the human remains were fifty beven thousand years old he must however afterwards have discovered an error somewhere for by a later calculation cu lation he reduces the antiquity fourteen thousand four hundred years see shorts shores american indians indiana page in 1848 count de kourtalis Pour talis found some human jaws with the teeth still therein and with them a human foot in a conglomerate of coral and broken shells these materials were wen embedded in the shore rocks overhanging lake monroe florida professor agassiz published the discovery to the scientific world with comments thereon in his types of man page the learned professor allows the coral hank an age years and for the bones embedded in its bosom years the scientific Wc worn work ipri syell and wun wilson accepted the data and discussed tj albat dissen for several years ultimately the count himself discovered that he had either been understood or else that ho he h bad made a mistake however h he put an end to the controversy tro versy by declaring deci aring that the bones were found not in a coral bed of conglomerate ht but in afresh a fresh water deposit distinctly characterized by bj mollusks such as are found eairy everywhere in the adjoining lake american naturalist vol 2 page dr foster f in speaking of the counts back down suggested that the prehistoric pre pro historic forests so called successively laid loewith low with thousands of years between each bed were trees and other debris brought down by the river in its frequent insoda eions and deposited with the wash ings from the bottom and banks 11 thus one by ones one the foundation dogmas of the popular fabric of delusive theories are being frittered fritt ered away by the silent allent attrition of these sepulchral evidences of the hoary past the learned ones refute one another says bays nadaillac in in the i preface to his work the first revelation in regard to the exist J ence of man with extinct animate animals was received not only with surprise but with natural incredulity soon own however proofs of such weight mul that doubt became no longer reasonable and we are now BOW able to assert with confidence that at A i period from which we axe are separated i by many centuries man inhabited i the earth already old at the time ot of his appearance the marquis might have stopped with this but he must go on and sha show chuk I 1 the length of this period can be bet measured by no chronology no cal cu lation can compute it history hig tory and tradition are silent with regard toil it the one grand aim and effort of science is to evade corid responsibility this bold dental denial there are th chrono lol gies histories and traditions WJ which the period of man mans manis Is first al bearance pe arance in m mortality upon afe earth can be computed and aacen talked with reasonable when canvas man waa ara created he WO w a perfect being organically at was associated with the highest cow e editions conceivable of elvi aud and refinement he stood in ti presence of his author and enjoyed bao he beautification of his fathers house house with the social freedom of a on at home who can conceive of any y deficiency in his natural capa me endowments and resources W was as mans primordial state be be f earth if he is found at a sequent quent period in a condition of tatt ders degradation dation we have the very best I 1 t reft reasons sons for attributing the abe to his personal derelle dereliction tion or he hereditary defilement and consequent degeneracy de ageg era cy history expert ance ac and the ahe laws of his nature proclaim with a thousand toi tongues gues t hat 4 mn man is 7 a responsible being every Y law jaw he breaks invokes invoke the warp very every immoral pop pollution ution deepens the gathering shade over 48 8 waning glory every crime of di obedience I 1 I 1 a and nd cruelty accelerates his d downward I 1 steps into the valley P of ai misery and wretchedness A waft division of the antiquarian ceol insists upon a fabulous antia ty t y for the ori einal american ta these were led ed by louis iab and sir charles lyell in the e opinion of the latter the krippl has hag flowed along her present bd cpr far upwards of a hundred thou ad nl years second visit to the bie sa s1 agta vol 11 II p there re I 1 is 8 another ohm class division view ni members embers are more conserva tle ye and cautious in construing the sa 4 and object lessons of pogy among these arp are the de nadaillac he observes utu deg 0 ram races and nations have ve frise aren IL upon the american con continent SUA and have disappeared fag no ao trace but ruins mounds frught dan stones and fragments of tae y then who and what were g arst inhabitants of america oid did I 1 py come to what won was their arrival due w routes did they reich reach these unknown I 1 ar lands ds I 1 by what disasters w were ere ey destroyed vast and are problems involved in th these questions for they affect at once the past and future of the uttian irace n pre historic america page 15 the manifest candor and earnestness which incite tile the above interrogations should be 1 nt t with corresponding desire and sincerity in those who have favor ate le evidence at their command to solve beave them Pt his end some powerful evidences oan can be adduced from that strange and wonderful erha production the mook book ot of mormon the most and unique archaeological discovery of 4 the aged age we are awake aware ke faie venera bk ia tm iw that murky vapors of prejudice environ it that the phantoms of superstition and the fiends of hate guard it and jealously oppose its coming out into the light but the interesting thing is gradually winning its way and emerging from unfavorable obscurity and surely when such objects as fragments of bones rusty ruay knives gruesome skull sand heaps of animal and human manure see P F W report to the peabody museum vol 1 page claim the ardent aident attention of the se scientist dentis t and ate are objects df microscopic examination a book of such momentous pretensions BB as the book of mormon which has been a foremost agent during the last half century in hundreds of thousands and populating an immense territory is entitled to a a share of respectful consideration the following pointed remarks are quoted from vol 1 page 1978 8 and chambers different colonies voluntary or ar tary must have reached the new continent at different times whence came the successive shoals of invaders to this question no direct answer can be given we can only scan the various routes by which the old world was most likely to people the american contin continent ent after considering the suppositions that colonies might have emigrated from bearings Beh rings strait the aleutian isles and the polynesian archi delgos pe lagos the writer says we can hardly conceive anything but barbarism having been conducted to america by any one of them and instead of being presumed to be so many baits for asiatic Colum buses land and magellano Magel lans must rather be viewed as each a mother country to a new colony as each a point of departure for a fresh swarm 51 I 1 J H KELSON to be |