The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-04-11

ho.rs. la the British Massun hs hsd had an oppor-
a0y Of oonsalag the laboss Of the Sanscrt scholars Of
ar dsy, who have arrived at the following conclusions
9Th regard TO Hindoo literature TT
l.. Date OF the Pusnss. between the sth and i4th Gen.
,ae, Of our Graf the vishna Punnas, oa4. None are
,hou,and years old-soms much less s 6i..a.
"a The ysdas, formerly supposed TO be ante-Abra-
h.mic True date. I'd century Of era, Date Of the
p.msy.ns A. d. 500; of the Mahabharata A. d. 200.
"A The laws OF Manou, supposed 10 be older than the
-. sf Moses, and TO have given rise to them, were
,omuosed about the 4lh century Of era, and are,
h,,.ore, not 1900 years old The Brshmins obtained
nolsdse of the books Of Moses after the Christian era
and stole from them
A. for the Hindostanic monuments. the s,upendous
v,o,to OF Elora is scarcely century older than West
mo.ter Abbey having been cut in the eighth or ninth
century
The Saascr. language descendant OF the Pail tongue
90. NOT perfected in the form known TO until the
9Th century Of our era.
There are no Ssnscrit inscriptions older than 1900
,s,rs in its ancestor the Pail, there is one 3I5 b. c.
and that is the Oldest
CH,sA.-The Chinese have been a secluded people in
,i,me is not true that the ancient Chinese knew OF
existence OF ult JtWS VI tuc CByVlldnb lue Int
maze first learned the existence of the Roman empire be-
tween the years 50 and LOG A. ID. Antonnus sent an
embassy TO China A. D. l66. Chinese records have
been kept better than those Of any other nation Their
books were burned 25 B, c.; bat the works of Confu
,u, and other philosophers saved, and carry us
hack 10 the 2ad century b. c., automatically fixed
BY an eclipse OF the in the 9th year of the Emperor
TcHousc- KoUKG, at B. c. 2l53 From this point Chinese
history ascendsless certainly to the 6lst year of Hoang
IL ,scerlaned to correspond with B. G. 1887. Beyond
that era no Chinese scholar pretends to Ok with certainty
date where all is involved in fable. Enough, how
ever is established to show ha. the Chinese existed as
.nope B. c. 3iss. OF 5i3a years ago. which, as was
Afterwards shown, allies with the length Of time now
claimed for the monuments Of Egypt The Oldest written
records Of China still exant dated n,he 18th century
&c, and the oldest Chinese inscription is tina, on
he monument of Yu engineer who altered the course
Of The Hoang no. Il is dated B. c. 227s. The Chinese
and Egyptians, them the only nations who can date
back with historical certainty 44s9 years.
The lecturer then returned TO the valley OF the Nile,
yologzng for this DEPRESSION by saying that Egyprs
place the history Of the world could only be deter
mined by comparison with other nations. Chinese his
tory ceases 1857 B. c. the rest being hardly worthy OF
he name Egyptian monumental history begins $500
ay C. tits thus 900 years cider than that Of China II
vcends beyond Abraham 1900 years il is older than any
ascipon found in Assyra by Boa and Layard by 1900
as il leaves Greece and Rome $500 years in The rear
md the boased antiquities OF Hindosan divided from
aby chasm Of 1000 years Egyptian monuments, scuip-
n1 BY Egyptian hands. reach back $500 years. leaving
Ne time at which the Egyptians first into the valley
the Nile entirely beyond the reach OF conjecture
Sch is Egyprs place in the worlds history in the year
ISL!
Nj. Gliddon next proceeded TO give sketch Of the
Nyalisr Lepsus who the earnest request OF Bunsen
md Humboldt. despatched by the King OF Prussia 10
Egypt in 1912, and Of his llustrous colleagues in Eng
and and on the continent. Among them were some oil
mos, learned men OF the age-men who, far from
Vfang their learning As the end OF education, looked
poa only a Of usefulness. as the carpenter
does his ,oos-as the implement with which they were
10 work Lepsius. with his party. having royal com.
mission and $4,000 in his pocket, landed in Egyp. in
September, 1912, and Immediately went 10 work The
blowing the results OF ten months labor over the
Aemphe Metropolis;
la The discovery OF IS pyra nids whose existence
ID not been known previously; thus making 81 pyra-
nd tombs Of Kings at Memphis.
a The complete establishment OF the old empire oil
ENp, with the succession OF The Kings from B. c. $500
2l00, with infinite details OF the events OF their
sxns
al Each pyramid being a royal tomb. the nobility were
barred around il, But three OF these pyramids were
sned in Mr. tine. Lepsus opened 80 private lombs
persons Of the highest rank, who lived from 1900 10
800 years ago
.h He verified the existence OF the Lake Moeris be-
god all doubt He also discovered the Labyrinth OF
AsSes. with its three hundred chambers.
The researches OF the Prassian mission proved ,be
Ts,ness Of theory broachsd by Mr.. Gliddon eghi
an aso-ihat civilization assembled the Nile, instead OF
ascending it In Lower Egypt are the mos, ancien,
oaanens-,he pyramids, &c-running back TO $500
C. Middle Esyp, gives the monuments from the end
as old smpre-22oo B. C.--to the period B. c. 600,
Ae'eabou,s. Thebes. instead OF being the Oldest city,
no monument older than B c 1900. Thence up
M all the monuments belong to the Ptolemzic or some
Sequent perlcda The old Pagan worship of Apis and
psiook refuge in the upper provinces, and was no,
rpsed until the Saracen INVASION
January, ls44. the Prussians entered Ethiopia 10
peel the island Of Msroe, falsely supposed to be the
as OF Egypt. They found all the monuments of
ne'n dases--rangins between B. C. 200 and A. d.
and the sculptures proved that the original Win.
'nsss from Egypt bad begun to mix with no~roe..
, III me Caucasian had finally merged into the negro
shrousn endless muIao grades, and the exotic q :
!, aaon OF Ethiopia expired forever. Fttt
. The Berlin Museum Mr. G had seen a .enI,,,rea
hFpuU III e.