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Show 414 TTIE MONOGENISTS AND had for common basis tho dispersion, over the surface of the earth, of the family of oah. "The sciences had, Lhcrcfore, their point of departure fixed and determinate; and arpund each of them was traced a circle, out of which it was forbidden to them to issue, under pain of falling instantly beneath tho clr·oad censnrc of thcolog rs,-who alwayi:l possessed, at tho serv ice of their notions, wh thor good or bad, thr c irresistible argumonLs, viz., persecution, imprisonment, or the stako." 20 'I'hus, then, the docLrine above advocated by tho Unmboldts iH snpporLcd, at tl1e p1·escnt hour, by the most briHiant scl,lolarship of th European contiu utr-as might easily be proved through quotations from a hundred rcccut works. Into parliamentary-stifled. England, even, the light is beginning to penetrate. For instauce, tl1o erudition of Mrt. AMUl!:L SJIAitPJJ: none will contest. To hi!:! Ucllcnic lca.ming we owe tho most critically-accurate translation of tho Now 1'cstamcHt27 our language possesses: to him, also, Egyptology, among other great services, is indebt d for the b st "liisLory of Egypt" 28 dcri vcd from classica,l sources. His remarks "on th.e Book of GeneBis" 29 boar dirccLiy on the subject before us : "We bavc no ac ount of when this fil'st of the Hebrew books was written nor by whom. It has been called one of the booh of Moses; and ~orne small pat·t of it may hav been written by that groat lawgiver and loader of Lbe Israelites. ut it is tho work of various authors and various ages. 1'hc larger part, in its present form, scorns to have been written when tho people dwelt in Canaan and were ruled over b~ judges, when Ephraim and Manassch w re chief among tho tnbes. ~Jut the au~hor _may have had older writings to guide him in .his lustory. It IS ev1dcnt, also, in numerous places, that other wrJ~e~·s, fat· more modern, have not scrupled Lo make their own a~dtLwns. We must divide it into several portions and each portion w11l best explain itself." ' S~ill more recently, an English biblical scl1olar, of no mean prctonsJons- wl,oso gentlemanly temper and pleasant style htspirc regrets that one so truthful should be compelled, owing to the dreary atmosphere of national prejudices which surrounds him, to ~ "On _tho cosmographical Opinions of the Fathors of tho Church, compared with tho phtlosoplncal Doctrines of Grooco"-Revue de1 Deux Mondea (8'"• s6l'io) PMis 1884. I p. G02. ' ' • • 21 1666T. he New Te&tament tran&lated from Grie&bach'& Text. Lo. ndon ' 12mo, Mo xon, Bd ed . , 28 London, 8vo, Moxon, 1846. M 211 SIIAttl'l·l, Ilittoric Note& on the Book& of tlie Old and New Tc&laments · London 12m oxon, 1864.; p. 6. ' ' o., 'l'IIE POLYGENISTS. 415 fight, i.n the cause of zJlurality of human origins and of diversity of races, wiLh his visor <.lown-has put forth a volumc 30 that augurs well for ethnological progress in Great Britain. The method of argument, and the majority of facts advanced, will be new, however, only to the mere rcaJcr of English,-two hundred years having elapsed since PE:tllERWS 31 started a controversy which, on the continent, has boon prolific enough, down to Fabre d'Olivet and his pupil Raflincsque,32 and still later to Klce.33 More recently still, we find an apposite passage in Dr. August Zeunc: 31 "It is known that, after the uprooting of the several Antilles by the paniards, panish ghostly divines palliated the introduction of negro slaves, for tb purpose of working the mineR, by the assumption that negroes, as the deRccndants of Ham (that is to say, the black), who was acctu·s d :)!j by his father Noah; because Ham is named in a holy record al:l 'slave of all slaves among his br thren.' * * * A well-known naturalist, now deceased, held the wondrous opinion that Ham, after hi~:~ father had cursed him, became blaclc from grief; an<.l was the (stammvater) lineal progenitor of the negroes. Which of the three sons of Noah became Kalmucks? Genesis indicates three (Mensclzenecltopfungen) races, at a much earlier Clay, in tho childt·cn of Adam, of the Elohlm, and of the Nephillm, &c.; so that Adam appears merely as the stem-father of the ll'anian race, because .Paradise also points to Armenia [quoting ScmLT.. ER, ·Uber die e1·ste Menscltengesellscltaft nach der Mosa'iclten U1·/cunde]. * * * Inasmuch as, however, acconling to the asscrLion of an admirc<.l dramatist, it has not yet occurred to anybody to snstaiu that all ftgs have sprung from a solitary primitive fig, even as liLtlc can any one admit the whole of mankind to be derived (abstammen) lineally ft·om a single human pair. Wherever tho conditions £:w lifo ·wct·e found, there life has sprung forLh." * * * Did the Jintitcd size of the present work permit (its previons Apace being engrossed by contributions of higher order than polemical discussions upon the scientific value, in anthropology, of a single nation's so Anonymous- Tile Genesis of the Earth a11tl of .nfa11: "A critical examination of tho IIobrow and 01· ok Scriptures, chi efly with a view to tho solutio" of the question, whetl1cr the Varieties of the llun1!1n Species bo of moro than ono origin," &c. EcliteJ by ltJW!NAJ.D S'J'UA!t'l' Poou:, 1\J. H.. S. L., &c. Eclinburgh, 12mo, Dlnck, 1856. at Prw-Arlamitre, sive exercitrttio mpcr V~rsibus XIIm•, XIII"'•, ct XIV'•, capitis quinti bpi&tolre D. Pauli ad Ronwnos, 1055. a• Langue lllfbrai'q1<e restitute, I'aris, 4to, 1815; "Cosmogonio Jo Moyse," pp. 55-8, 177-83, 211-12 :-and A merica11 Natio1l8. II Le Delu,qe, &c., Pttl'is, 18mo, 1847; ChaptOI' ur, PP· 102-204. a< iibor Sclliidelbitdullg zur festcrn Begrilndung der Jlfensclleltrasam, Dorlin, 4to, 1846; pp. 2-4 116 Similar anti-scriptural notions, so far as tho Ticb1·cw toxt is concerned, arc cntcrtainrd by D1t. W Arto, Natural [fiat . of Jl(al!lrind (Soci ty for P'''Hnotiug Chri~tinn knowledgo), Loudon, 12mo, 1849, p. 195. Con1pnro 1'ypes of Jlfankind, voce KN AllN, pp. 406-8. |