Show perhaps another dark age james 11 II breasted Br eastel of tho the university Uni erdly ct el chicago wa wo sio has for some time been stud studying jug m what hat is being beings is rv healed of ancient egypt by excavations sas 8 that the medical a and nd surgical knowledge of the egyptians of care ears ago compared quite favorably with that of the present day the surgeons of that time knew fsr wore than did those of europe and america no further lack back than it century ao io he lie save all that was lost to the world during the lium or more which composed what wo we know as the dark nits ages to it ii a common human trait to imagine that wo we arc are smarter than our predecessors and wo might easily point to scientific and other now the common possession of all which was not ia b tho the possession of our forefathers it is true enough that the fund of hii liti man knowledge is now noir far greater than it was but a century past and that science of all sorts lias has made tremendous progress during that time 3 ct et this docs does not prove that anre vp as a whole arc are any smarter than choso who li ed in choso da s it merely shows that we have the benefit of the accumulated and still accumulating knowel dge of the times since the world again began its upward climb wallace tho the great british scientist a short time before ho he died said that he lie was unable to disc discover that man since any record of him had been made I 1 sd at all increased in cither either intellectual power or moral qualities if man for thousands of ars reached a high scientific ie and social state and then was plunged into ignorance and darkness thou though gh not declining in intellectual power what assurance have we that such will not occur again and that thousands of caw eam hence other excavators m will ill be trying tr ing to show the people of their day that we knew a little something in this dayt day it seems imp impossible isible that with the pro present ent cleans means of transmitting anil and preserving such a braal asil should occur but it would bo be ignoring the teaching of history to say that it could not |