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...large and appreciative audience assembled in Upper Boylston Hall last evening, to hear Dr. Ward's second lecture on Anthropology. His subject was "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development," and it was treated in his customary clear and interesting style...
...Ward, after briefly reviewing the preceding lecture, called the attention of his audience to the fact that there are two distinct theories relating to the origin of the world and the nature of things in general. The first, or older hypothesis, holds that an uncreated being formed the world with matter he created. He then made man and placed him upon it. The will of this omnipotent being is the force that set the world in motion and from which all energy springs. The second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries...
...length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life of a man of seventy bears to his last three months But whatever may be man's age, his origin is still an open question...
...Modern Anthropology: Man's origin, antiquity, and development." lecture. Dr. Ward. Upper Boylston, 7.30 p. m. Open to the public...
This evening Dr. Ward will deliver the second lecture on Anthropology in Upper Boylston at 7.30 o'clock. The subject for this evening is "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development." The lecture is open to the public...