New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-26

Is. The hieroglyphic mode of writiHg practise
here vas TIE esrne as in China-as is seen whe
once the principle c: Interpretation IS understood
1e. The general character Of ihe dress was IN
SAME in 10th the lofty mead dress and tue al
rapgemeat OF The skins OF animals are idehi'ce
II. The same animals were considered SscEe
IN both hesispberes. Here the dog was eonse
rreted TO death and funerals. In Egypt Annoi
was sacred 10 the same object. and was dc'igSsle
By the head of the same animal.
I9. An identity in the architecture OF oo'n la
,!i.hed The same cycloPsan s'r u ,:I
oeen es'a- -rtion of the Arch, brii' Tx
and the same conhs-.- u, prourinences re
pair Of stairs inverted. ara IT, commo
moved, exist in BOTH and this style was
in the earliest ages Of tie world and in mons o'her
Besides all this, the ,tadiiioaary testimony Thict
has been accumulated is perfectly oyerw hefning
To certain dlvinities were ascibed the sane oces
characters and acts, and in truth the idols wor-
SHIPPED here were only the idols worshiped there
scsrely differing at ell save in name. II they had
Saturn there, &c hsd Saturn here. And when
we come to speak OF certain srest eyents in the
history OF the world which we believe to be true
when we speak of the Deuge, we find abundant
testimony among the Dog Indians and the
Choctaws, the Nicaragua the Peruvians and the
Mexicans, all bearing upon hesame poist-;eiiinS
the same story OF great deluge, interviewer SEINE,
times with the history of the ark and of mans
escata. To ecr1e the s,o-y of Ararat is appended
with the distribution OF tongues end the dsre:flor
Of nanknd-all presenting this great truth with
such striking significance tina, any one can read
it-any child can understand it who has been
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deluge we have the ark, with Noah and his wife
and childreR, in pictured Observation-Disclosures,
the confusion of tongues at Babel, and the dsPer-
sion of mankind. And now, after having thus
shown that the inhabitants Of this Continent had
knowledge of this great fact, caa it BE- asked il
am not ror.ancinf when ! seek TO interpret the
symbols OF these natural events Il the events
were known, they would have been recorded, in
the only mode which they possessed-that OF pic
tgre writing.
And, finally, have not called your attention to
certain resemblances in the astronomical systems
of both Hcmispheres calculated 10 prove identi-
~ of origin What more shall | say This will |
say. What is it in which these resemblanccs are
foundl Sometimes in what man says; sometimes
in what man does, and sometimes in what man
bows down to. Do we find the agreement in acct
dental points or in circunsrantiaisl Evidently In
circumstentiais for the figures the rseves purely
arbitrary. In this fact, then, tpat they are arbtra-
ry, and that they are quite unlike that which they
were intended to represent, do we find strong evi.
dence of .leil identity; for this agreement in what
is arbitrary could not have been accidental. Ii the
serpent stand for c0lamity-thc sign surely must be
arbitrary and if it be found here and there in sim
liar positions, this fact strongly confirms the cor
rectness of The Interpretation.
Ne wonder then that as he surveyed this mass OF
testimony, (and no was better able to DO this
with cearness and comprehension than he)-
HUMBOLDT should have reached tie conclusion tina,
he found here evidence OF race that had separated
at very early period from the rest of mankind.
If this testimony, then. esiab sh u relationship
between those who first peopled our land and those
who inhabited the other continent-the question
will arise how came this relationship to exist?-
Where do we find way nationally 10 account tor
this IDENTIFY This has been theme for tae spec
ulations of various writer's. The most PhilosoPhic
argree that there are bat three possible modes IN
which this could have occurred:
|. Either some nation, some one tribe, de-
vised this complicated system Of idola'ry and In
vented all these symbols and ell the others with
blind devotion adopted them;
9. Or, if this be not satisfactory, we must sup
pose some ono nation to have conquered the rest,
and after having established this system of Pagan
Mythology, to have forced it at the poin, of the
sword upon all others;
3. Or, lastly all the nations of both Hems-
pheres must have learned it IN a common school
all must have drawn it from the same original
source.
Now let US take up each of these systems and
examine its probability. As to the frst-which
supposes all nations TO have bindIy copied it from
the invention of some one-pbat nation, In the
history Of the world has ever devised system OF
religion which all others should ihrong to learn
History on this point is silent as the grave, and
those who have writea about it cannot agree among
themselves.
Take the second theory-and suppose that some
victorious tribe propagated this religion at the
point of the sword What tribe was IL hich thus,
with force of arms established what never yet has
been seen, universal empire? Again history Is
silent as the grave. Not the feeh!est slimmer
of light is shed upon the questlon-uot a solitary
lay eElighiens the thick darkness that surrounds H.
Take the third supposition-that all nations
must rave been to one and the same school and
there learned this common worship. Is History
silent here Oh nc i, speaks loudly and with
emphasis upon ii; and this is the only possible ny
po,hesis which has the least support from History
Is there, then, any spot upon the Earth ~here Inc
whole human family have been collected together,
and where they might receive this common nstruc-
ton One history tells Us of such spot, where
all men were collected ard where they spoke one
tongue. That land was the PAN Of Shtaar, and
the History which tells US oft Is the Bible. Speak
ing of this merely a. history, it is the only one
that exists upon which record of this great tact IS
made. This shows US that this common iaoiatr!
originated Immediately after the Delnge which de-
stroyed the FIRST Inhabitants OF the Earth. 1t may
seem strange that men JUST rescued from water!
death should yield to idol worship. But We see
that when the Patriarch first went forth tIon the
Ark he, and all his family, acknowledged the God
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