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Show 5GO TilE MONOGENISTS AND PART V. "Adam, ante mortem ~Jus, convocavit om11es jilios suos, qui era11t in numero XV milia viro1·um absque mulieribus." (Vita Ado ot Evo, ANON., A. D. 1400)."• According to tho I!obrow and the Samaritan Toxts/'6 Adam was only 130 years old at tho birLh of Seth, his third son; according to tho Septuagint Version, and to Josephus, his age was then 230.447 In either case, the precise year is :fixed by Archbishop Usher at B. o. 3874.448 "And the days of Adam after he had begotten 8etlt wore 445 Pnr~OMNESTJ<J, p. 87. m R~;v. E. B. ELLIOTT, A.M., Ilorre Apocalypticre, London, 8vo, 1846; IV, p. 254 :-II.nwoou's VoN l30HLY.N, lntrodttction to Gcncaia, II, pp. 97-9. H7 King James's version, Gmesis, V, 8, 4, 5. m We h11vo soon ( s upr~t, note 268) that 1'ubt~l-Cain is tho God- Vulcan,· nnd now in Seth it iR ottsy to recognize, through Josephus (Antiq. Jud., I, 2, &c.), and tho dialectic mutation of S into 'l' aapi1·ated, tho God To'l' of tho l~gyptians, "nulhor of letters" (l3uNSEN, Egypt's Place, I, pp. 8!J8-li), othorwi~o Taulrts, or Thotli; not to be any longer confounded, as ho lraij boon by some, with SE1' or 'l'yphon. Soc the argument of ALFitllO MAURY ("Personage de Ia Mort," Revue ArcMologique, 15 Aout, 184 7, pp. 825-6). It had been formerly indicated (Types of Mankind, p. 562) tlmt the mother of Seth, before she was nnmcd Eve (i. c. "KltiUaH, becauso she waH the mother of all living," Khala; Ow. III, 20) had been called AiS/mH, ISE, or Isis, who was famed as" the universal mother." It has been likewise shown previously ('l'ypea of Mankind, p. 544), why the patriarch ENos is only the" God of tho vulgar." If etymologies nrc to be sanctioned in the explanation of primitive myths, the rtbove four examples of Vulcan, Tl1oth, Isis, and Enos, now identified among the antediluvian progenitors of mrtnkind, will be found more susceptible of historic ancl prtlooogrnphical justific11lion tlmn the learned Mr. Osbm·n's uniquo discoveries (.bfonumental Ilisto1·y of Ji,gypt, London, 1854, I, pp. 28!J-40, 245, 339-44) of Adrtm, Noah, Tlttm, and Mizrairn, in F.gypt.inn hieroglyphics! Not merely (p. 222) nrc "Scripture Prttriarchs identiftod with .Egyptian Deities," but, in his ingenious ~tud pious book, the very" nrtmcs of Goddesses recorded upon the monuments," arc declared to be "those of the wive« of the patriarchs;" although this excellent critio allows that "they arc not preserved in the Bible." 'l'o tho same class, engendered by a similar monomrtnia for "confirmations," in defiance of rcnson and historical truth, belongs the alleged discovery of the namo and exploits of MoMs in contemporaneous hieratic scrolls (ll.F:v. D. J. lbATH, M. A., 1'/ie Exodus Papyri, London, 1855),-as if the English translation itself, utterly foreign to ancient or modern Egyptinn ideas, did not sufficiently betray an Englishman's imposition during the present century I As for the RFJV. C. FOltSTJm's last (A Darmony of l'rimreval Aplwbels), wherein thoro ·is not a single hieroglyphic drawn with even childish correctness, nor a solitary phonetic value exact, tboy fall (together with his Himyaritic, Sinaic, and Assyrian interpretations, &o.) into a simpler catcgory,-th~tt of downright imposture. The self-deceptions, or perhnps "canards," of M. BAltROIS (Dactylogie et Language l'rimitij restitute d'apres les .bfonumwts, Paris, 4to, 1850), have hoaxed even His Holiness the Pontiff (Lecture litteralc des flilroglyphes et des Ounliformes, Paris, 4to, 1853; p. 86): but being bt~rmloss pasqninadcs of a gentleman who pays liberally for the publication of his own books, as won as for any clever cheat (Pulszky's paper, supra, note 17, Chap. II) that "Chevaliers d'industrie" mrty foist upon his credulity, they ret\lly become sublime, viewed in comparison with some of the instances of fraud or hallncination above cited. TIIE POLYGENISTS. 5Gl eight hundred [LXX, 700] years; and be bcgat sons and daughters; -and all the days that Adam lived wore nine hundred and thirty years; and he died:" leaving a rather large family, if we credit the biography, above cited, that his children numbered 15000 men besidP8 the women. From what sources his second biographer gathered these statistics does not appear, any more than whence the so-called MoAaic compiler obtained the other Adamic particulars recorded in Genesis. The earlier biography, assuming Archbishop Usher's dates to be incontestable, must have been written (Denter. XXXI, 9, 26,) about B. c. 1451; or some 1623 years after Adam's decease, -an event which, taking place 930 years after the Creation, ascertained to be n. c. 4004, occul'l'cd in 13. o. 3074. The author of the "Life of Adam and Eve" lived, it is true, in A. D. 1460, or 4534 years after Adam's death; but any one who believes that anecdotes of the protopatriarch's long life could have been preserved, for incorporation into tho PcntaLcuch, during 1623 years, cannot reasonably deny extension of tho same possibility (1451+1460) for 2911 years longor.4 ' 0 We need not be astonished either at the number of Adam and Eve's children during 800 years; because, while, on the one band, Cardinal Wisoman 450 and the Rev. J. Pye Smith 451 teach how physical causes were in more vehement operation before tho "Flood" than after; on the other, the multiplication of the J cws in Egypt, during the 430, or 400, or 215, years of their sojourn, when post-cliluvial physical can os wore precisely the same as at present, is equally formidable, and possesses equal claims upon credence. Jacob and his family, in number 70,4m or 75, persons, settle in tho land of Goshen; and thoit· descendants issue forth "about 600,000 men on foot, without the children, and a mixed multitude"'53-or GouM-AaRaB, Arab levy or horde. Commentators vary in their eAtimatos of the number of souls, from 1,800,000 to 3,000,000; nor is tho umation of the sojourn itself at all settled; 454 but tho latter point is unimportant to my present argument. So is also the displ'Oportionato area in Eastern lower In mnking these assertions upon my own responsibility, there arc two courses left open to the reader who C!ll'CS about verification; 1st, to inquire of the hic1·ologists in charge of tho Paris, Dcrlin, London, or Turin Museums, whether they do not support these rcpudi:ltions; or 2d, to defray the printing expenses of n thorot1gh analysis of cnch work by myself, 11Hbough I think "lc jcu no vnut pas la chandelle." «9 I nm merely following, with a little more minuteness, the orthodox example of DR. II ALL, Analytical Synopsis, Loudon eel. of Proto:nrNo's R!tces, 1851, p. xxxv. ~ Connection between Science and Revealed Religion. jbl Relation between tlte Jloly Scriptures and Geological Science, 8d. cd., London, 12rno, 1848; pp. 185, 243, 801' 3'10. 452 Genesis, XLVI, 27 :--CAllEN, La Bible, trad. nouv. I, pp. 162-4, notes. 453 Exodus, XII, 87, 38 :-Op. cit., II, p. 50, note 87. 4M L~rsrus, Ollron. der A!Jgypter, I, pp. 815-17. 3G |