Sketcher. PARADISE FOUND. The Garden of Eden at the North UNKNOWN

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2087, 21 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Sketcher. PARADISE FOUND. The Garden of Eden at the North UNKNOWN

XOT A I>mCTIC\T4 JOKE. Thai a man should Boriously set himself to t)io ta-ili cf proving that the Garden of E.kn was at the North Pole would eefcra nt fiiat hlush to prove instead that ho ti either a "crank 1 or a practical joW. Bet in a volume of 500 pages Dr. Warren bas made out bo plausible a plea for bis apparently absurd and paradoxical theme, that thos<? who come to scoff at his firet pago remain, it Dot to pray at least, to be much impressed with hie Wr. Hia v/ido research, learning in qenuity and industry reap at least the loward of pecurinf; the' respect ii not tho conviction of his reader?. Wlim he epraka of the Gai don of Eden he doc?, not mean the pxact depeription of that paradise in tho book of Goncßi>, but of a region wh^is mankind ori' ittated, tho region of which ell nations with n JitPiature retain a tradition; end which resembles more or lees cloarly tho paradise desciibed in what ia generally known aa the Mosaic accouut of creation.

TIIE DFMJGE AT HIE POJAU Again by tho "North Polo" ho floes not m9Bn the region cf eternal ico and enow, a region of universal find perpetual death nnd deflation, but the North Pole as it probably exited unknown years ngo j a tropic land <if flow pis and vegetation; of life in moot wondroiu and vigorous fointa. There was the crad'o of the hum.v.l race, the E.lon of primitive tradition, which was submerged fit the time of the deluge; not a universal deluge of rain as is genu ally supposed; bat n delude of tho water of the earth which, owing to a phiflinf! of the errth'B centra of gravity, alternately submerges its polea ev<rj 10,500 years. The autumn tnd wjntor of tho northern henurphero lo^t 179 days, of the ffouthern htmiFpbero 180 days. Tbis aeven days of diffTcnco increase eaoh yenr the coldnees of the southern pole. During 10 500 yenra tVo ico accumulates at one polo and melts at the other, thereby displacing the earth'c contreof gra' ity. The time will como when a cata3tiophc will occur restoring tho cenfro of gravity to the centre of the enrth and cauwe pcain fi» imraenpc deluge. Tho delude of Die North Polo wa^ 1-00 years ngo; therefoiotho next will bo C3OO years hence. Another theory ia that tho poles nre submerged not alternately but at tbo samo timo, and the water at the equator subsides whilo that at Ujo polfß ijsf3. The known inland? of tKi Arctic Ocean, such aa Nova Zombie and Spitzborgcn, are simply mountain tcps etill remaining above the purfa.ee of tha sea which lii 3 come in and covered up the original continent to which they belonged- It w»« therefore before the last of these deluges 4200 years f.go, that tho ancestorc of the prf-cnt race of men were living on the continent jtfst mentioned at tho North Pols.

tiie garde:?. But could such a region of ico ever have ben a Garden of Eden, an earthly paradiee? All sctentifiu anthoritiea of the pre?ent day admit that at one timo tho rr gion within the Arctic Circle enjoyed a tropical or nearly hopicfti climate ; nil its vegetation was everywhere green, of much tho prime typo now prevailing in the modern tropic? ; or as a rhyiaster his put it : When the eea rolled its fathomletii bil'owa Across tho broad plains of Nebraska ; When aruund tho North Pole grew banana's and willows, And masfodona fought with the great armadillos, For the pineapples grown in Alaska.

COOLING DOTWJ. As the whole earth was at one time too hot to maintain life, thoen parts which cooled firiit wore the first whore life could be maintained. Thoso parts were the Arctic and the Antarctic zones. They icceived the least heat from the sun and they had tho thinnest mass to cool. In passing from a condition too hot, to a condition too cold, for the support of life, those regions must have passed through all the temperature suited to all phnts and animals that hve or over havo lived upon tho earth. As the earth cooled down tho poles passed from a torrid to a temperate heat, thence to a frigid temperature. The tropical plants and animals were driven from the temperate heat down further to the torrid heat, until tho pieeent torrid zone became habitable for tho torrid plants and animate, and as the cooling first occurred in the centre of tho polar circles this life was driven out Bud Si?peraed in all pcsiiblo directions. As a matier of fact, thib ia what is found. The plants and animala in the present ternpcnite and torrid regions present an immense variety of species and families; white tho animate and plants of tho present Arctic regions do not differ, being all of the same kind, and tho only kind capable of reacting the intense cold.

rnoii north to sounr. It is believed further that the immigration of life was from north to south, and not from cast to west, because all tho mountain chains and ocean currents and prevailing wincta run north nnd aouth. All these would prevent a movement east and west. Even plants cannot pass the high mountain ranges. The heated currents of air from tho equator have always risen and passed to the north in the upper air; the colder and heavier currents havo hugged tho ground, laden with fallen germs and spores and all the winged seeds of plants, bringing grass, ehruba and trees southward. All insects and grass-eating animals followed the plants; all birds and flesh-eaters followed the insects and grass-eaters. Tho hot currents of the ocean are on top and more to the north; tho cold currents aro below and more to tho south, carrying all kinds of ecu life from the pole toward the equator. So that the migration of man, plants, and animals from tbeir Eden, or placa of original creation, w«a not east and west across great ruts and currents, but from north to south, along the sides of the mountains and with the currents. Or, in the words of Mr. Hilton Scribner, in his work, " When Did Life Begin ? " 41 Tho artio zone, which was tho first in cooling down to the first and highest degree compatible with life, was also first to become fertile, first to bear life and first to Bond forth her progeny over the earth. Hho was first to mature, to pass all tho subdivision's of lifebearing olimate and finally the lowest heat degree, and so the first to reach sterility, old age and death. And now, cold and lifeless, wrapped iv her zuowy winding-sheet, tho once lair mother o( us all restß in the frozen embrace of an ice-Bound and everlasting sopulcher."

A LONG KAY. ! Supposing, tbeicforc, that tho Arctic regions were oiico tropical and temperate, the day* and nights would not bo tho «arne aa thotto oi the present temperate and torrid ssonea. The popular notion is that tho day is six months long and tho night six months long at the poles. But, according to tho testimony oJ many observers, if the twilight and dawn ar« included, there are 1!>1 days of tho ami, forty, pevon days of dawn, forty-eight of twilight and only seventy-six of actual darkness, 01 pbout one-fifth of a year. Ho that in regard to light tho polar legion was much mure fr.vornble to life tbnn any equatorial region, And since the bun h the source of lifn, ii wouia bo voiy po3Biblfl for plants and animalf including man, to attain enormous eizo anO ptrength and evon lonßcvity.

"Tatuwsi: Foi si>. The cradle of tho human race at the North Pole. A study of the Pm historic race. By William P. Warren, Presi dent of tho Boston University, e.o. Boston lloughtoD, Miillin & Go.

All tbc floras and fl.n'al ttpen and funn* iP\c/iLd in t)ic ojii^tt fo^il* of Ihn eoith oncirr-icd in tLci.- ion of theNirlhFoL and fiicr 1^ f preatl pv i t'TnoUhFrni'^d tl)6noicr tb.^ boutl'Tn )..iu.>}>lirrr. V^'aMon ptoCCfri' d fro-n o-if ci n're — in 1 t- :tt o f>a w,i« tJir Korth Po'^-the ntc of X f-n Hi. Mfcoi* Wii iaoosays : " All 'he chu t t\ i e^ <>£ iitutn \l lift 'ij-pefLr to hay.' origiiiA'ca m tlu • r^ar nor'ij temperate or northern ccntircntfl, wh l d ti.e ■ ou" tin i-unt^iPntß havi> bctn more or ],ts co.'ii>L't' i> ly i-oliti?'l from the ncuhern contincbt sii-d Trora ccoh otLiGr."'

(.MWTIO MAMS AND AM >I U,S The "Micocno continent," whcrcrn the enormous p'antfl and srimalf) were produced, wa", according (o thib history, nt the North PuV. The plants wcie ot very rank and luxurhut growth. Tho humble creeping plants of our day were then tie s eighty or ninety feet in height. The trees oi that penod were Ri«nntic in stature, and it is not mij-robablo that the great trees o! California aro the few remaining specimens of tho trees in the Gaideu of E ten at the Xorth Pole. The fossil remains of plants now found in the Arctio regions prove that enormous pines, oaks, popbiH, walnut 1 ?, limes and magnolia once grew theio. " Had thp Book of Genoais described one o£ the trees of Eilen as 320 feet in height and thirty feel, in diameter at the base, not only ftil the Voltaires of modern hijtrsy, but al-<o— uutil the diecovery of California— all naturalift 1 * of tho advanced anti-Christian variety would have made no end ot fiport over the iinboientilic or mythical 1 Uotfuiy of Moseß.' " TheHfl eurviTing trcea of Cftlifoiru'a " toll of tho far-away dawn of the day of man, they bear testimony to tho extraordinary lite which characterized thrir bhth land. And if tbceo last individuals of an expiring race can maintain, under unfavorable conditions, a Timorous hfo through '2000 >oar=," then it ia not impo3°ible that tho men of their time and place ftveraged inoro thun cix feet in btaturc and /ittairit'ii to an ago quite surpassing our thrte-acoro j'urs and ten. It would require more than the combined livca of two Methusolahs to watoh the growth and death oi a i»ingle tree liLo thofc of California. Th 9 growths of a region whoeo day was ten month 1 ! in length, and whose ni^ht wa« but two, coul«i not fail to be vastly different from those regions where, on an ftverge, almost twelve hours of twnnty four aro spent in darkness.

jnr mammoths. Ti.e Arotio rockß icll of the enormous mastodans and mammoths ones existing there. The remnias of the mammoth are so abundant that "the northern lelnnd of Siberia « r .rms built up of its crowded bones." Lsrge quantities of ivory are dug out of the ground every year.

iur,irn risen ft. Other interpraUfcionfl of the author are rcoro fanciful. Acoording to him the four nveis flowing from one source in the Garden of Eden are the streams which would flow from ft common centra at the North Pole ; the tree of life in the oentre of the garden is the North Polo, etc. The long polnr sunlight, the ntars that never act but revolve in a oircle about the polo, the auroral light and the besutits cf too polai heavene form, in his opinion, the stuff and substances of the glories of E'3f n and Paradise, which in Bomo shspo arc preserved in (ill tho sacred legends of All l^eoples on the earth. " The old stories of ft Goldon Age, of the Gardens of the Hesperides, tho trre of Golden Fruit, of the rebellion of tho Titans, of the destruction of mankind by a flood, aro history once more," The book ia a very curious and interesting speculation, and ihows wide roadicg and investigation ; the author quoting from 500 or moio different writers of every age and overy ton^ae.