The Eternal Adam
The eternal Adam is a short story by the French writer Michel Verne. It is most often associated with his father, Jules Verne, which was also the intention of Michel Verne. It was under the French title L' Éternel Adam in the journal La Revue de Paris on October 1, 1910 and in the anthology of short stories Yesterday & Tomorrow (French et demain Here ) together with short stories by Jules Verne in November and December 1910 in France published.
Action
In the fictional country Hars - Iten- Shu, which is entirely surrounded by four seas, a nation that has been shaped by bloody wars throughout its history alive. The roots of the country is its people is not known. The scholar Dr. Zartog sofr - Aï -Sr, which is the third male representative of the hundredth generation of the family of the sofr, the question of the origin tries scientifically investigate. He can show the history of life over a period of twenty thousand years. His knowledge after only the last eight thousand years are marked by civilization. During this time, knowledge amassed and the technology is always developed further. Historians satisfies the history of this ancestral sequence of peoples and especially the struggles of ethnic groups to explore each other. However sofr wants more. What interested him was the real origin of civilization and life. He is working on a theory for the origin of the animals from a coming out of the sea of life.
Sofr leads excavations under several sedimentary layers that document the period of at least twenty thousand years. It is a strange artifact found. It is a box made of aluminum, containing old documents. These are scrolls from a time that was so far appears without intelligence and without civilizational history. Sofr is the mystery gradually, after several years the font decipher. This is the diary of living in Central America French from the year 2xxx. Sofr do not know what is a Frenchman. The document describes a huge catastrophe. The earth was flooded by a gigantic flood. The author was able to escape with only a few people with a car before the flood in the mountains. However, they were overtaken by the tsunami rescued from their plight by a ship. Without a goal, they cross the world's oceans. The continents are gone and the world civilization is wiped out. The food will go off. You will find a small almost uninhabitable, barren and desolate island. They decide to go ashore, as there are drinking water. The struggle for survival demands in the coming years, all forces and the mental abilities of the colonists degenerate. After years, the population is slowly increasing. Without civilization periods the population at the level of savages her life. With his last strength, the chronicler closes his aluminum box and buries it.
Sofr wonders after reading, if life is as such a cycle. He finds something about the interpretation of the word Hedom, which is nothing other than the bending of Edem. Edem is again the deflection of Adam and Adam turn the deflection of another expression, which was even older. Hedom, Edem and Adam are nothing other than the eternal symbol of the first man. Sofr has thus clarified the arrival of the first people to his world. He is pessimistic and the story ends with his realization that apparently everything has to be started anew again and again.