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Show 48(3 TUE llfONOGENISTS AND certain arts was forg d through the aid of words which designated either tho objects or tho instruments of which tho arts make usc, or oven by tho help of tho proper names of those arts themselves. It is thereby that Closter (Kt-wo'<r~p), that is, tho spindle, was hold to be tho inventor of tho art of spinning wool. The art of striking fire from flint was discovered, it was said, by Pyrodos (nupl.OO'IJb), that is, the burning, tho kindled, son of Oilix (silex), tho flint. Tho 'pise' (luteum wdificium) had been invented by Tcchnos (T~;:(V'IJb), art, incorrectly written JJocius in tho manuscripts of Pliny; tho rule (regula) and not tho tile (tegu,la), as one reads in some manuscripts, bad had for its author Cinyl'Us, son of Acribc'ias. The name of this Cinyruti is derived from tho root canna; and a false reading bas substituted, for tho name of Acribo'ias (c:lxpi(3s,a., rectitude), that of Ag1iopas. Chalcas (Xcit..xob, b1·ass), son of Athamas (' AoafMX.s-, hard metal), bad made tho first bucl lers, &c. ;"-just as, in king James's version 'l'tUBuT~KaiN, literally, tho God- Vulcan, has become transmuted into "TuBAL-O.AIN, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron." 363 268 GcnC8i8 iv, 22:-coof. GtmnoN, Otia ./Egyptiaca, p. 141, note. Every one knows tl1nt whether "GOD nppenred in the flesh," or "wno nppcnred in tho flesh," of 1 Timothy iii, Hl, depends upon OC or ec in the Codex Aloxnndriuus at the 13riti.sh Museum; _which bilitorn~, through pious hnndlinge, is now elf need I (CAllJHNAr. Wzst:~IAN, Oonncctzon betwem Sczcnce and revealed Rel-igion, London, 1836; II, pp. 168-!l. Soc also tho snmo fnot in WwrsTt:NH Nov. Te8tamcnt., II, p. 864; cited in n1snoP M,msn's AfichaJlu, I, p. 677, notes.) "1'ho history ~f Saint Ursuln nnd of tho 11,000 virgins whoso innumerable relics nrc ~hown, nrmugod 1n ono of tho o~urohos, nt Cologne, owes its origin to nn oxproRsion of tho ~1~ cnlendn~·s .. V1·aula et Undec~mclla, VV. MM.; thnt is to any, • Snint Ursula nod Saint Un(lt.cu~olln, v1rg1ns n~1d JOIWtyrs.' Ignorant renders have, as one porcoivos, singulal'ly mult1phcd t~o latter snmt. ~onf. Brndy, Clnvis Cnlondai·in, t. 2, p. 884." (ALl!lUJD MAURY, Ltgende~ Pzeum du Moyen-A,qe, Pnris, 8vo, 1848; p. 214, noto.) . Hero 1s one II~brcw, un~thor Greek, nnd n third Lntin, oxamplo, out of hundreds nt hnt•d (m Dc.brew especlt~Jiy), to JlhiHtrnto historicnl motnmorphosos. Whore either instnnoo docs not. su1t. tho tnst~ of 11 Doootinn, it may thnt of an Athoninn. But for the oricntnli~t I n<ld 110 mcd1tod spoc1mon, duo to tho ltindnoss of n Persian scholnr, my old friend Mnjor-Oonornl Dagnold, of tho lion. Enst-Ind. Comp.'s Service. ~n t~o ~rn~io nlpl.miJot, ndoptcd with slight modifications by Persians, tho lottor zi:IYN, Z, IS d•shngmHh,od /rom the Iotter n}:, U, only by n "nuqtn," dot, or point, placed nbovo tho fo.rmor lottoJ' s ho~d. "Tho nuthor of tho Anwarry Salieilly jocularly criticizes tho usc of pomts by an nmuslllg couplet, which I translnto almost verbatim, and pnraphraso: 'If Anwnrry, within this world Could wish to live without its' ztltimut (misery)~ Nature brings fortl1 11 filthy fly To dung o'or tho bond of Rill in r61n'mut (mercy)~.'" TIIE POLYGENISTS. 487 "In tlJO time of ausanias, the people of Corinth, to whom the circumstances of Lhe foundation of Lheit· oiLy were totally unknown, recouuLed that tlds city had been built by a king named Corinthus. "All these personages of poetical fiction wore attached, afterward , to tho divers countri s from wl1ich the Greeks ihncied themselves to have origin at d; deceived as they were by rosomblauoes of tratli Lions and tho lying assertions of strangers emulous of being tho parontH of their civilization. It is heuce that Phccnicia, Media, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, and India, wore r gardcd as the cmdlo of these heroes, all a reeks by their origi o and their name,-tradi tions comparativ ly modem, that hav led more than one scholal.' astray, but of whicl1 criticism has d finiLivoly ruined tho authenticity." In justice to my fri nd M. Maury, I onght to mention that hiR foot-notes sustain ev ty statement with in fragable testimony. We behold, however, in Gre ce,-a countt·y abont which we possess more information than concerning any other on oarth,-thanks to her ancient hif:ltoriaos and to modern archroologists- bow human origines, in one and tho bost-ropr sontod locality, arc absolut ly unknown. If' in toriod Ucllas such is tho ca o, what must we oxp ct to :find about man's primordial advent upon our planet, among l SH historical nations? The prefatory remarks to tho" American Realm" of our Ethnographic 1.'ableau will ill ustrato another phase of thiH argument. Tho chronological dofi.cioncios encountered ovorywhoro else compel a :finalrotum to tho monuments of tho Nile. Arni.d thoi.r petro•rlypl1~ and papyri alone can we hope to weave a thread by which to measure the minimum length of time that a typo of humanity must have occnpi d that valley. In our former work/61 a syn psis of hioroglyphical investigations exhibited how }~<ryptian cl1ronology stood iu the year 1853. Four years have passed, and I have nothing to alter. Correct then, tho same views ar accurate now; for, with tho ox option of an appendix to tho MisB s Hornor's trauslaLion 26 .; of his travels, Chov. J~opsi us has not more clofini ti.v ly treated on chronology; n r, up to tho spring of last year (J 56), bad he pnhlishocl his Book of J(ings; unLil tho app Manco of whi.ch, I have consistouLly maintained since 1844, no prof'ssod system of hgyptiau chronology can, in tho vOI'.Y nature of human things, possess s lid or dumblL: claims to att nLion :-such as have rocontlyapp m·od, worthy of respect, being oi thor like M. Brunet do .Proslc's, 266 a re-examination of tho classical sources; or el o like Chov. Bunsen's second volume (ubi supra), a 2M Typta of lffankind, oSG-9. 266 J,euer3 .from Hgypl, Ethiopia, &o. (supm, no to 1 08). 206 Examm critique de la SucccasiOii dea dynaatie8 6gyplicmm, Part I, Paris, 8vo, 1850. •!• |