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IT has come to be an understood thing that when geologists or biologists propound theories as to past stages of life on the earth, and these theories attain to a certain popularity, some theologian shall twist the words of the Book of Genesis into a new interpretation, to show that this was what the inspired author meant all the time. A fresh musician has set Moses to dance to a new scientific tune. Since the publication of well-known modern views as to the diffusion of plants and animals from the Polar Region, it was to be expected that we should have a book proving that man was created in an Arctic Paradise with the Tree of Life at the North Pole; and here the book is. Other ancient cosmologies, such as the Greek and Indian, are made to bear their not always willing testimony. Those who take up the book should notice that the commendatory letters published from Professors Sayce, Tiele, and Whitney do not at all imply that these eminent scholars countenance the Polar Paradise doctrine. The President of Boston University seems to have sent them a paper some years ago on “Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography,” their acknowledgments of which they are now perhaps hardly delighted to find figuring as certificates in a “Paradise Found.”
Paradise Found. The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole. A Study of the Prehistoric World.
By William F. Warren, President of Boston University, &c. (London: Sampson Low and Co.)
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Paradise Found The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole A Study of the Prehistoric World . Nature 32, 28 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032028a0
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