Capitolo 21
the wise men of old man. They is to-day party in researches
what a first generation would have relegated to the researcher and
the man of ease. Any department of knowledge is held back for
the researches of a little favorite. The grower, the mechanic and
the men of business are likewise interested in a knowledge of
prehistoric times. The ill-mannered utensils of the appeal passed to the
the curiosity of everybody. We rise more in clear way from a study of the past with
the ideas of the destiny of man. Thrilled with the great advancement in
the condition of man from the ill-mannered savageness of the motion, to the
the civilization illuminated of to-day, thing we cannot hope for the
advancement will be during the innumerable centuries we believe a
Does beneficent Providence have in shop for its creature, man?
A history of the popular opinion of the antiquity of man is not
only of interest, but you/he/she should teach a lesson to everybody that you/they think
others are wrong because not holding her same sights how they does.
Fifty years have hardly passed since then scientific men they started
attributes an antiquity to the human run more remote than that
assigns them from history and tradition. For first these sights met
with general opposition, very as it made the theory of the present
system of the astronomy when first you/he/she was proclaimed. We now give back
to the ignorant fear and prejudices they fought both.
You/he/she had asked that the Bible taught that man you/he/she had lived on the
you combine as soon as you are thousand years. The Bible is the book to
what the Anglo-Saxon mind it grabs on with the greatest reverence.
Remember the infancy they are in partnership with his/her pages and his/her
the a lot of aspect recalls a long time ago the prayers of. It is not
strange then that the Christian world protects with jealous care
against some thing that you/he/she can be thought that I/you/he/she weaken the strength of,
his/her affirmations.
But it is human nature to go to extremes: and, when we give ours
support to a way of thinking, finds him/it to us difficult to be