Show GARDEN OF EVEN EDEN some time ago the NEWS mentioned the of professor Protes eor augustus Is ie Plon POng geon eDn regarding the origin 0 of the human race on this continent he bases his hie arguments oo on his truly startling discoveries in yucatan Ya catan made dur 1 OK ing resea robee covering verina co twelve years yeara arbe san ban francisco Franc leco chronic now devotes a to various theories on the me bame subjects all of which have found d adherents at as one time or another marsharn adams adami to a an english who has devoted much ilme to the mysteries of the great pyramid the nile and the basin of the african continent with regard to the pyramid he be accepts the view of piazzi astronomer royal of scotland namely that it is a itea testimony in stone 29 prophetically outlining the history of the world to he end of time and as to the central african basin he be thinks that ansden admiral ly to the region where the garden of at the bibe was planted in the days day of primitive man on the eastern side bide he as cumes was waa once the tue the progenitors of the race were driven out and over which was waa placed the flaming fl aminiz sword tur turned nod way to keep time the way of nho me tree treb a of life ja 1 and to prevent the offenders ofle odera from returning and elating eating of its ita fruit one of the th great difficulties in connection with the location amans amana primeval abode la Is the geographical da d crip tion in the bible and the apparent impossibility of identifying the river hotem with anything known at present a difficulty that increases when it la Is considered that euphrates and although now united to lo their course at an early period undoubtedly were entirely separate rivers Josep josephum Joae phuc hup and after him some of the early fathers fath cra held that eden was waa the entire region between ganges and the nile but calvin concluded in favor of not far from the persian quit gulf others think of ar meia me ia so aa the farat residence of man curiously enough the modam madans who through the lineage of ishmael possibly received early traditions eions now faded from the memory of other ancient racer but retained to in some form among amon them bald that man ome come to this abla earth from some heavenly body after the fall and that paradise ae not to be sought bought upon the earth at all mr adams adama contends that the river which went out of edeny eden Y end and afterward parted and became four jv in present I 1 in a the great boole the sharl fl flawing through irb the heart of this territory representing the scriptural edenbo stream and the Zim beal the niger the nile sod and the congo the four head bead thereof in the territory watered by each of these streams mr adams on finds do the specific do characteristic attrib died to it in the book of Ge geneale neals there are further ethnological and antiquarian conditions which mr adams considers oon ilden to be favoring the assumption that in the watershed wate of the nile aud and other great rivers riven of central africa wee was located the cradle of the race at all events of hat part of the race possessed of a civilization egypt contains monuments of the greatest antiquity there are evi dences dancea in remote corners of the he earth which strongly indicate that it wow was once the center of civilization and that a dispersion of the race occurred from the bunko bank of the be nile the wonderful mente and aund in the wilderness of yucatan are very suggestive of ancient egyptian origin how uncertain based on such facts are is evident however when it to la remembered that nearly every other part of the earth the north pole included hac some time or other been considered the first abode of marl man donelly to contention that the loat at lantis contained the garden with tree of life 18 19 not without elements of plausibility but it is ia needless need leei to theories that rely for support evidences buried beneath abo e waves or inc loed behind impenetrable barriers barrieri of too ice Plon geon has hag adduced argument for his bia belief that america to is the cradle of the human race and it 16 is more tuan likely that when is ia in a position to speak peak authoritatively on this subject the soundness of ablo view will be demonstrated it if we meantime assume acu me that roan man first appeared in america that an atlantis atlantic between the continent of the two that cain fled bad to the east ater the and that bat the rao race hor boo spread to africa and to the old ohl world orld many mysteries of the remotest remote antiquity seem eicy easy to solve arlve |