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| SYNOPSIS : GURU TILAK IS SAYING TO FORGET THE ELEPHANT AND THE TURTLE-- IT' IS CLIMATE REFUGEES ALL THE WAY DOWN. |
These are plain and simple statements, and when we put them side by side with what we know of the Glacial and the post-Glacial epoch from the latest geological researches, we cannot avoid the conclusion that... it is now a well-settled scientific fact that a mild climate in the Polar regions was possible only in the inter-Glacial and not in the post-Glacial times...
Some Zend scholars have narrowly missed the truth, simply because 40 or 50 years ago they were unable to understand how A happy home could be located in the ice-bound regions near the North Pole. Dr. Warren, the President of the Boston University, has anticipated me in his learned and suggestive work, the Paradise Found or the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, the tenth edition of which was published in America in 1893. I have also to acknowledge... Khân Bahâdur Dr. Dastur Hoshang Jamâspji the High Priest of the Parsis in the Deccan.
The progress of geological science in the latter half of the last century has, however, now solved the difficulty by proving that the climate at the Pole during the inter-Glacial times was mild, and consequently not unsuited for human habitation.
We might even go further and say that ancient Vedic chronology and calendar furnish an independent corroboration... and if the sober view of American geologists be adopted, both geology and the traditions recorded in the ancient books... point out to a period not much older than 8000 B.C. for the commencement of the post-Glacial era and the compulsory migration.
Publisher Messrs. TILAK BROS
Gaikwar Wada Poona City
1903
