What is Truth?: An Inquiry Concerning the Antiquity and Unity of the Human Race; with an Examination of Recent Scientifc Speculations on Those SubjectsI.P. Warren, 1871 - 424 pages |
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ACCORDING TO AFRICANUS admit ancient animals antiquity argument Aryan Asia astronomical Berosus Bible Brahma Bunsen called Caphtorim Chaldean character Chinese chro chronology color commencement conclusion creation cycle of sixty deluge derived descended Deucalion dialects Diluvium Diospolite diversities divine duration dynasty earth Egypt Egyptian Eratosthenes Europe Eusebius evidence existence fact flood Fuh-hi geological gods Greek Hebrew HERACLEOPOLITE Herodotus Hindus Hoang-ti human race hundred India inhabitants Josephus kingdom kings known language literature manes Manetho mankind Memphite Menes Mizraim monuments Mosaic records Müller mythology nations naturalists nature negro Nile Noah opinion origin Pauthier period plurality polygenists primitive probably Professor prove race record regard reigned relation remarks Rig-Veda sacred Sanskrit says scholars Scripture Semitic Septuagint Shepherds Shu-king son of Noah species supposed Syncellus theory thousand tion traditions tribes Turanian unity valley varieties Vedas whole words writer
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Page 342 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Page 171 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 385 - ... composition with them, that they should leave Egypt, and go, without any harm to be done to them, whithersoever they would; and that, after this composition was made, they went away with their whole families and effects, not fewer in number than two hundred and forty thousand, and took their journey from Egypt, through the wilderness, for Syria; but that as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then the dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judea...
Page 153 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 240 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Page 21 - on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist; indeed, the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, now his contemporaries, began to predominate. If there be a difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits of the remains of man and his works, it is always in reference to strata confessedly of the most modern order ; and it...
Page 290 - Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from which the Nile waters had been shut out for centuries appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the surrounding grounds, which had been raised by the gradual accumulation over them of sediment annually thrown down. If the waters at length should break into such depressions, they must at first carry with them into the enclosure much mud washed from the steep surrounding banks, so that a greater quantity would be deposited in a few years...
Page 154 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Page 111 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the godhead who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 190 - The examples under the heads 2 to 5 become severally less and less numerous, and art must generally use an unnatural play of forces or arrangements to bring them about. Again, in the animal kingdom, there is the same aversion in nature to intermixture, and it is emotional as well as physical. The supposed cases of fertile hybridity are fewer than among plants. Moreover, in both kingdoms, if hybridity be begun, nature commences at once to purify herself as of an ulcer on the system. It is treated...