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Show G30 EXPLANATIONS OF TilE TAB-LEAU. "M. Fr6d6rio do Rougemont nccopts without hositntion tho contents of the Old Tostnmont; nvoiding to distinguish botwoon tho mond and religious pnrt, nnd the purely historioo. l r\rul googrnphioo.l pnrt,-holwoon tho divino ptut nnd tho human part. In his eye~, ooo am! tho Hnmo character of inspirntion consecrates o.ll the pages of tho holy book; and tho r~le of tho critic recluoos itself to that of n oommcntntor. * * * " [ shnll not undor·tako to discuss tho priuoiplos upon which M. do Rougemont sonJTolds his edifice. I wilii·ostrict myself to consigning hero one obsorvntion, viz: thttt, although Protostnntism is tho school of free inquiry, thoro oxist in its bosom some persons who, in matters or biblical exegoHis nncl criticism, show thomsolvos much loss libornl nnd less bold thr~n tho Cntholios two themselves. Inasmuch ns tho Protestants fool tho lnck of rm t\uthority, rmd as thnt of n trnditionnl dogmtttio tuition is wttnting to them, they cling with onrnestnoss to n book which is tho only authority to them r mninirlj~, nnd they will not issue from n litornl nnd n1u·row intorprott1tion. 'rl1is system greatly inju1·cs tho ndvanc - mont of a multitude of scioncos,-such ns ethnology, chronology, geology, &o.-tho.t hnve need of liberty nnd inclopondonco. ''In order to proceed in 11 method truly scientific, it is necessary to clear tho table (Jaire table ra8t) of everything which bt\8 no scioutifio vnluo, nnd consequently of ov rything thot is not oonformnble to ronson. Sufliciont is it to any, that tho domnin of f11ith 1urd tho dom11iu of science nrc nltogothor distinct: nor cttn they be confounded without compromising the diguity and tho rOle ns well of tho one us of tho other. Dut, on the opposite hnnd, scionoo, "hen she stunds upon hot· own ground, ottnnot, without solf-nbnogntion, admit lhnt to be dernonstr·Jttcd and corttlin wlrioh is only so in respect to sentiment. 'l'ho fo.ult of M. de Rougemont is, to lmvo coustnntly mingled tho two methods; no Jess tll!ln to ho.vo believed tho.t he could, nt ono nnd tho same time, satisfy purely-scientific opinions o.ud religious convictions. "It ho.s happened to tho nuthor of this boolt what hnd o~ourrod to tho first missionnricij who went forth to pre110h the gospel ILmong Bf\VItgcs. Pre-occupied with tiro thought of ro-finding, in tho to.los nn<.l gr·oss imaginntions of such sopts, some rom mbrnncos of tho pristine fo.thcrhmd whence those believed thcmsolvos to hnvo issued, tho mis~ionarics hnvc modified, often unknowingly, often intentionally likewise, tho rocitttls they had hoo.rd, in ordor to invest them with n more biblio1\l color. 'l'hoy hnvo trnnsfor·mod into serious nml oonnootod traditions thnt which wns hut tho instnntnnoous nnd Ci\prioionli\ cr· l\tion of n snvngo poet inspired through tllrir own diacourses ,· nnd it is snob ~tuff which they have prosoutod to us ns tho soculttry rontiniscouocs of tho snvo.gos whom tuoy were ovongolizing. Indeed, those infantile stories did not often ttscond to nn epoch mor·o nnciont tlmn tho missionaries from whom we J·eooivo thom,-ttnd nlrondy tho infiuonoo of tho idons proncltod by them, of tho facts by themselves tnught to their cntochumons, mttdo itself folt within tho vo~y nnrrow circle of tho conceptions of those tribes. In this mttnncr, tho nposUcs of ?hrtst only rot?ok, under nnothor form, thnt which they themselves ltnd sown; nnd they reg~stored, !18 nuCJont traditions, thl\t wbioh wr1s n1mght but tho fnntnstic envelope given to tho1r ow~ tonching. This is who.t bo.s inoontostnbly occurrod,-notnbly on tho discovery of AmcriC!I, nnd more recently in tho islnntls of tho Indian Archipelago 1\ud of Polyne11i11• It ~u.mcos to co.st one's eye upon tho th·st o.ccounts that tho Sp1minrds composed ~tbout tho ~·cl1gJOn ttnd tho us11ges of tho Jndiuns, in Mdor to convince oneself thr1t tho formo1· corlatnntly mixed up their own beliefs with tho fables which tbcy gnthorod horo and thoro amongst tho sttvagos." After proving his positions -for Mexico, through D. ANom:s GON?.AT.F.S DAnOrA, FnANorsoo Lot•Bz JH: OOMARA, JVAN lHJ 'L'oRQUI~MAUA, FATHER LAFITAU, GAllOlf.ASSO 1m LA VF.OA, nnd D. FlmNANOO u'Ar.vA-lX1'1TXOOIII'!'l.-for Now Zonlund, through Sm G~<~ono~: OttMY, [DuN~tOI\~1 LANO], J. C. VOLA OK, Dtlll!l!NDAOn, l\nd MCEll~>NIIOU'l'- and for l'oru, throug~1 tho Je8utt P•:.ono Jo~tlnY. AniAOA, subjected to tho recent scalpel of •r. G. MUr.J,flR (G~Iclucilte de~ Ammkani8cl!en Urrcligionw)- 1\:1. Mnm·y glr\ncos over tho nltra-biblicnl nobon8 of ttnotont Egypt, Groooo, nud Ilinclostt\n; o.nd lastly touches upon tho traditions of the llobr·ows: EXPLANATIONS OF TilE TABLEAU. 631 "Thnt which comes o.go.iust tho suppositions of our author is,- tho very trifling development which tho dogmn of n futuro stnto, ttnd of demons, ho.d tnkon nmong tho Ismolitos; wborons we soc it serving ns a bnsis to tho groo.t polytheistic 1·oligious of nntiquity. If tho biblicnl trudition had been tho foundntion of pugo.u beliefs, bow comes it that that which was to itself tho most foreign should hnvo plo.yod amid thorn tho principal part? And, on tho other hnnd, one would be compelled to recognize tlu1t these hetLthon nations have boon mo1·e fnithful dopositat·ios of tho primitive gospel tlmn tho cloct-pooplo itself,- bocnuso Christianity hns o.doptcd those dogmntico.l dttt11 which tho Greeks und tho Egyptians know u gront doni bolter lhnu tho llobrows. Our author t·oo.lly fools tho dilliculty; and it is in vain that ho tries to pnrry tho objection accruiug frow it 11g1dnst his system. "'l'hot·o is, however, one point upon which I will not combnt M. do Rougemont, and which will give me nn ocoo.sion to conclude this polemic- porbo.ps n little too prolonged -with a trcl\ty of potiCO. 'l'ho SwiRs writer respects in nil 1·cligions their dignity, o.nd tho.t which nmy be oo.llcd, up to o. cet·tnin point, their twth. Thoy are, indeed, tho one~ as won ns the otllcrs, tho expression of tho gmtitude of man towo.rds hi~ Croo.tor, towards Nntu1·o, whose boncftts sustnin his existence. 1'boy constitute tho n1oro or loss unl:vo shupo which thought puts on whilst meditnting upon our destinies; nnd, o.s such, they ho.vo tho right to bo seriously studied; ns such, thoy mu~t find plnco in tho history of thnt which is tho noblest of our boi11g. Donontb those orrors,- natuml fruits of credulity and fonr - tlutt cncit·clo human boliof, thoro Hvos n profound nnd instinctive sentiment wlrioh is bound up with nil our good instincts, whensoever it be suitably directed and rostminod: -this sentiment is that or tho soul fooling its wonlmess, wbicll hns uood of tho support of tho mysterious lloing whence it proceeds. 'l'his sontirnout consoles and sh·cngthuus: it is the refuge of tho honest mo.n, nnd tho motive-power of tho most sublime sncrilioos. Science, for· from comhtLting it, bows before it. She o.coopts it 1\S n fi\Ct ns evident ns tho most evident of physical nnd historical fncts. M. do Rougemont feels these tmths with more force than ttny man, bcOILnSo it is tho oxooss of this sentiment thnt lends him nskny. flo wishes, like th~ ancient Gnostics, to behold but tho ruys of which tho luminous portion b comes onfooblod in tho ratio th11t they remove themselves fttrlher front tho Divino focus whence th y omttnttto; but, wl111tover nmy be snid 11bout it, matter l!a8 al8o lwd i/8 part to play int1Le8e creeds and these super81ition8,-and tho mnjority wore born upon o. soil that hud not been warmed hy tho gontlo light with which ho is i11uminod." Fint\lly, th ose who may cnro about ]mowing whitt is now, in Franco nncl Oormo.ny, tho scientific stl.wd -point ns concerns such words ns "Crcntion," "Deluge," "Ark," o.nd othct• Scmitico-Chrislian tmditions, hnvo moroly to turn over tho loaves, for nbout 80 insto.noes, 8ub vocibu8, of Dwo1·'s Encycloptdic Modemc, lnst edition. REFERENCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No. 31.- KUTCHIN-INDIAN. ["Kutcha·Kittcll'in W(lrrlor (Loucbcux·Tndll\nB or Mnokonzlc):"-RronARDSON, .A•·ctio SIArcMng Jhpeditio" (1848- 60), London, 1861; I, p. 381 .) .For instinctive hatreds botwoon tho indigenous Indinu 1·acos and tho Arctic Eskimo, compnro llt1ARNJ1 (Nor/hem Ocean, JJondon, 1769-72, Chnp. VI), Hoot• En (Ttt8ki, pp. 272-6), nnd UIOHAnDsON ( Op. cit., I, pp. 877-402). No. 32. - STONE-INDIAN. [Sio110·171di<m (ncar Oumbcrlnnd House:"- o' llANKLrN, Voy. lo Illlar &A, l-ondon, 1823, p.l04.] "'l'ho 'Tirine" [ns tbo Eskimos term tho Indinns], or Chippewy11ns= Todio.ns, stretch ncross the continent of Amcricu, mooting tho Eskimos on tho onst, nn<l tho Kutcllin on tho west of the Rooky mouutnins (RJOHARJ>SON, op. cit., II, pp. 1- 69). No two typos are more distinct tbfln Amcrico.n Indinns and tho Arctic men. |