Genesis of Worlds (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...alternative of a ' stone age, ' suggests a recital of some of the benefits derived from the use of metals. They form a constituent part of every convenient appendage, and of every necessary adjunct of our existence. Whether waking or sleeping, at work or at play, they are essential to our enjoyment, and our progress. The machinery by the aid of which fields are cultivated and crops gathered; and that used for all manufacturing purposes, and pursuits of pleasures; all vociferate their achievements and their indis-pensableness when compared with the alternative of a "stone age." The world-wide extension of commerce, facilities for rapid travel, means of universal enlightenment through printing, electrical appliances for motor power for lighting, and news carrying over the wide world; these, and all other business enterprises of every name and nature, depend upon the use of metals beneficently extracted, provided, and stored for the benefit of mankind in the trans "Stone Age" Alternative. 171 imitation process when " the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Does not His all-controlling providence in the mighty work call for our grateful recognition? Life in a "stone age" has been well illustrated in the discoveries made of such existence in caves, wherein stone implements and bits of crockery are mingled with bones of animals that had served for food. Clothing consisted of skins of animals. Furniture, conveniences for comfort, and literature were unknown. Such would have been the dismal existence and plight of the world's inhabitants following a system of slow erosions of the earth's crust and' of shore deposits of materials ground slowly out of' the hard granite; conditions that excite in us mingled feelings of commiseration and...