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Show NAPOLEON'S FIRST CAUSE: MUD. Queer Belief Said to Have Dcen Weld by Great Soldier. That man N made of mud by spon-tancous spon-tancous generation under tho sun's heat was tho tlcllberato opinion of Napoleon, first of tho moderns, If (Jen. Qourgnud can ho believed. Through tho reticence of the General Gen-eral s son, tho memoirs of this veteran have until recently strangely escaped publication. An abridgement is now Issued by McClurg: "Talks of Napoleon Na-poleon at St. Helena." Referring to ancient civilizations In the East, Napoleon 0110 day said to Qourgaud: "All this leads me to think that tho world Is not so very old, at least as Inhabited In-habited by mnn, and within 1,000 or 2,000 years I am disposed to accept tho chronology appended to the sacred writings. 1 think that man was formed form-ed by tho heat of tho sun acting upon mud, Herodotus tells us that In his timo tho sllmo of the Nllo changed Into rats, and that they could bo seen In process of formation." |