Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — As Animals of Earth Grew Smaller So Did the Humans [ARTICLE]

As Animals of Earth Grew Smaller So Did the Humans

That the human race, like the animals of the world, was in prehistoric times of marvelous size is a theory that has been advanced by many students of antiquity. It was, however, anly the French orientalist, Henrion, member of the academy, who fixed exact sizes for the earliest members of the race, declaring Adam to have been 123 feet 9 Inches tall and Eve 118 feet 175 inches. He also gives a table saying tfeat Noah was 103 feet tall, Abraham, 27 feet tall; Moses, 13 feet tall; Hercules, 10 feet tall; Alexander the Sreat, 6 feet tall, and Julius Caesar, 5 teet tall. This proves, according to his theories, that great men are not all jig men, and also proves that as the mimals of the earth grew smaller, so lid the humans, until today the man svho is more than six feet tall is considered above average height.