The Visions of Mrs. E.G. White

OBJECTION 19. — MEN BEFORE THE FLOOD

Gifts, Vol.3, p.84, states that those who lived before the flood were more than twice as tall as men now living; that generations after the flood were less in stature; and that there has been a continual decrease to the present time; and this, it is claimed, contradicts — what? Some other vision? No; the Bible? No; but “facts.” What facts? Oh, a writer in the American Tract Society’s Bible Dictionary, conjectures from mummies and some other things that the race of mankind never exceeded, in the average, their present stature! O weakness! where are thy swaddling bands! Somebody conjectures that the human race never could have been larger than at present; therefore the vision must be false! But it is a notorious fact, that evidence has come forth upon this point, amply sufficient to sustain the testimony of the vision. Much of it has appeared in late volumes of the Review; and it is now almost daily coming up fresh from the bosom of the earth — evidence from the discovery of organic remains, sufficient to show beyond a sane doubt, that at some period in the past there existed on this earth a class of gigantic men and animals, in comparison with which the present species are but pygmies. Before such facts as these, the objection vanishes like chaff before the whirlwind. VEGW 74.3