ORIGIN OF MAN

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 7

ORIGIN OF MAN

I .. . ■ i ARCHAEOLOGIST'S DISCOVERIES “Civilised mill ekifetfed untdld cen-, furies ago,”, said the ReV. Dr. A. H. 1 Sriycfe, a rioted arohaijoiogist, in dfeliv- ■ bring the Huxley Mfeiubfiar lecture. ‘‘At a Hide Which baflhot be measured, everi .iri rilill'eriiUifls, man made ' very great"ihventibris, orie Of which was language, ahd b'ecgme a first-class artist.” Dr. Shyde tlfecribed his tiistsbvery in Upper Egypt of rot'k drawings, chipped yith'flint tbbls, of elephants, giraffes and dstriehes, aIL of Whi'ch liad CfeasbdX to exist in Egypt When hieroglyphic Script first kfibWii iri its present | fofin. sdiii& dfaWings had. been eilt hieroglyphic ifisorlptibiis of the 11th ’ Dynasty,-4*ooo or 5000 years ago. These Were its fresh as if they had been en- ' graved yesterday, ; Sit Flinders Petrie, Egyptologist at University College,' London, had- found ' that huge granite 'blocks used in the Great Pyramid lihd been smoothed With tubular drills fitted With hard atone points. Thb World had Waited till the Mont Cellis tUiinOl (between France and 'ltaly) ,wris built-before similar implements were employed again. After referring, to reefent discoveries in Babylonia arid India, Dr. SayCe said the rirbhdeblogist, like the".geol -gist,! had to ■ leave catastrophic thfebfising to the literary amateur. A millennium was' bub a day in the life-, of civilised .man. “If ■ rfeligiqiis doginks are untrue, ,’et ' thempass!? said fir. E.' IV- Barries, Bishop; .Of Birmingham, at the' dihrier of the Royal Society of Medicine, after Observing that never since the ■ Golden Age of-Greece had mental eiiefgy bc..h r more fertile. “When orie talks. of the future, one thinks always Of the immediate future,” said Dr. ‘Barnes, ‘"but we are allowed • to look ' forward at least 500,060,000 years, in which .conditions may allow humanity to flourish On earth. Will our descendants be perfect in body, more powerful in brain, and create a Utopia, or will the age of mammals which has endured only some 60,001),000 years, pass away? “If man vanishes from the globe, will : some new form of life, higher in the ; evolutionary scale, reconstruct our achievements in its schools of antiquarian research?” (