The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-19

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then introduced Otherwise the cnapers nave tne
neable charm of rude antiquity Their very baroness is
blessing The grim actually OF pgone Times IS oyer te
interior So power are the influences OF poetry and mag
naton that one could help feeling that the actual
in Macbeth was present There was the half dark half
olarno ampt chamber where the banquet held when
Rnono strobe across You could hear Duncan struggling
in the chamber and believe you stood the very steps
up which the lettering murderer stumbled. The chamber
door opened again. it did when the seelnerved lady
out to revive her terror and husband
You glanced through the dim windows and the guards
fitting among the trees and the "kne" was dying away up
the dark glade which night left blank among the trees
There real tragedy enough in the CASTLE The widow of the
sixth lord of Gams beautiful woman burned to death
on Casehill Edinburgh in 1887 for witchcraft 1t
afterwards found out that the unhappy lady innocent
Superstition is always depotc and destroys high aud low
who suffer to prevail There old royal bedstead in
the CASTLE and also ancient of the Kingdom family
united the Sahmore descendant of the Burnt Countess
became Earl of Sathmore in 1872 The present chapel IN
the castle is entirely covered with paintings of scrpural
character by Dewitt. They overlad with yarnsh
that no opinion can be formed of their merits.
ETNoLoGY-n deciding upon relationship and afnities
between races Professor Huxley considers first complexlon
and he finds four great classes of compexon which must
suggest here by the words white yellow red and black
though neither of these coors completely represented IN
any any He then relies upon the shape of the
head which he finds divisibe less into long, short
round and prominent otherwise in the lower face lie
then relies texture of the hair Next he considers the
language analysed by comparative philoogy then the
similarity of CUSTOMS of beliefs of habits, etc. Beginning
with the Australians he finds but tribe related to hem
and that small tribe in the south of India He finds that
there existed in the neghborhood of the Caspian and Ara
SEAS ancient times the the norh the other at the
south, a light and bue-eyed and dark and back-eyed
people, The dark people found adherng to the coast
and may be traced from Persia all around by Italy to their
great western CENTER the Basque region of Spain thence they
skirt France Wales Ireland and the immediate ancestors
of the swarthy Brtons Welsh and OF Ireland OF
this day. From the Ara to Saint Mao in the west OF
France there is such level country that one may drive
wagon all the way without upsettng it, That the path
by which migration of the fair took place. and when
they arrived here they mixed with the Basque and to that
ntermixtue Professor Huxley attributes the varieties OF
Europe He strongly opposes the idea that differences OF
climate could have produced the notifications OF races
and insists that the mixture of accounts for ALL lie
traces resemblance between the African and any other
race and finds that geographical for beiev
ing that the northern csahara part of Africa part
of Europe and utra-saharal Africa was an island !he
Egyptians passed from Italy and Span the physical
connection between these and Africa being almost raceable
low tide. From the Egyptians came the Syrlans
Arabians Armenans The Chinese Tarars, etc. skirt
northward into Scandinavia But beyond them there are
tribes that resemble the Indians of the extreme north OF
America These very different from the aborignes OF
South America The professor finds that each great kingdom
of race had several and original civilization There
an Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Mexican, Peruvian
civilization and neither of these be regarded as having
been produced by the other though latter centers OF
civilization may be traced to other OF these The
details he gave concerning these We're extremely
interesting He quoted from very ancient Chinese writings
of date several thousand years before Christi the golden
rule and found that with them originated the idea that
government existed for the benefit OF the governed instead
of the governors. ome present observed after the
lecture that would be advisable to get the Chinese to send
missionaries to Europe) When considering the ancient
Fovntan civilization the professor read Egyptian
novel, decphered from monuments which existed long before
the DAYS of the Pentaeuch which clearly the original
of Joseph and Pophars wife, and has good deal OF the
svle of the Arabian Nights in it. With reference to the
grand question of ethnoOgy whether all race: migrated from
single CENTER or as Agassiz thinks pere o1Phy Ofm nd
in the Darwnan theory point where those who assert
and those who many centes for the human family may
unite He thinks that in entirely prehistoric times the
geographical structure of the earth very different from
what now and that there links and paths between
the islands and continents which exist no longer over the
whole earth distributed very low primitive stock
of the human type and in the process of these were
separated, the from the other by vast geologic and
changes Then by gradual see9on the he WEAKER te
stronger until they improved and gradually eliminated
in their various civilizations Thus each in its present form
was created in its own island or continent