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 seven billion one hundred and eighty million eight hun- dred thousand (6,607,180,800,000) square feet in Texas. Allowing ten square feet as the surface covered by each dead body, we find that Texas, as a cemetery, would at this rate hold six hundred and sixty billion seven hundred and eigh- teen million and eighty thousand (660,718,080,000) bodies, or nearly three times as many as our exaggerated estimate of the numbers of our race who have lived on the earth.

A person standing occupies about one and two-thirds square feet of space. At this rate the present population of the earth (one billion four hundred million persons) could stand on an area of eighty-six square miles an area much less than that of the city of London or of Philadelphia. And the island of Ireland (area, thirty-two thousand square miles) would furnish standing-room for more than twice the number of people who have ever lived on the earth, even at our exaggerated estimate.

There is not much difficulty, then, in settling this objec- tion. And when we call to mind the prophecy of Isaiah (35 1 1-6), that the earth shall yield her increase; that the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose ; that in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert, we see that God indicates that he has foreseen all the neces- sities of his plan, and will make ample provision for the needs of his creatures in what will seem a very natural way-

RESTITUTION VERSUS EVOLUTION.

It may be objected by some that the testimony of the Scriptures concerning human restitution to a former estate is out of harmony with the teachings of science and philosophy, which, with apparent reason, point us to the superior intelligence of this nineteenth century, and claim this as conclusive evidence that primeval man must have been, in comparison, very lacking in intelligence, which

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