OBJECTION 19. — MEN BEFORE THE FLOOD

Gifts, Vol.3, p.84, states that those who lived before the flood were more than twice as tall as men now living; that generations after the flood were less in stature; and that there has been a continual decrease to the present time; and this, it is claimed, contradicts — what? Some other vision? No; the Bible? No; but “facts.” What facts? Oh, a writer in the American Tract Society’s Bible Dictionary, conjectures from mummies and some other things that the race of mankind never exceeded, in the average, their present stature! O weakness! where are thy swaddling bands! Somebody conjectures that the human race never could have been larger than at present; therefore the vision must be false! But it is a notorious fact, that evidence has come forth upon this point, amply sufficient to sustain the testimony of the vision. Much of it has appeared in late volumes of the Review; and it is now almost daily coming up fresh from the bosom of the earth — evidence from the discovery of organic remains, sufficient to show beyond a sane doubt, that at some period in the past there existed on this earth a class of gigantic men and animals, in comparison with which the present species are but pygmies. Before such facts as these, the objection vanishes like chaff before the whirlwind.VEGW 74.3