The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-04-15
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Asia has at all times been regarded,
as that section of the world in which
the human family first originated
where it received its earliest training !;
and from whose midst it has distri-
buted of its abundance TO all other
portions of the world. Whether there
were several such original tribes, that
arose independent of one another, or
whether we must refer to a single pair
of human beings from which all the.
races found upon this globe, have
sprung, however various their colors
and forms may be; in either case the
history of the formation of language
remains the same. IF we, in the
meantime, trace the nations back to
their tribes, to their families, we shall
discoyer-ifSnot the history still the
tradition of all the ancient nations,
pointing to single pair of human
beings from which gradually families,
and from these tribes, and, finally,
from tribes that nations have arisen. -
Only inquiry is made, and the inquiry
has already often been, made, who
these families were, and who the
primitive people, that emanated from
them; where they had their original
seat; and how they gradually extend.
ed so as, from such circuit, to be en-
abled to fill the four sections of the
world. This question, has reference
to aslHatter of fact, and history must
answer it, But history is silent in
this matter i;-.its earliest books have
been rent by time, md the few lines
Of it which Moses has saved for us
may indeed interest, but cannot salts
fy our desire for knowledge.
AT the peaiod when the first faint
rays of its red morning twilight glim-
mered forth from the long darkness,
which began about two thousand years
before the commencement of our era,
the whole of Asia and part of Africa
were already filed with a multitude
| of great and small nations, Oh. rather
tribes, distinct in manners, religions
and languages !; the war of each one
against another was already in full
| progress; and swhosknows how long
this had been the condition of things
Here and there already existed cuiti-
yated states in earied degrees of civ
| ilization, and in the same, great num-
bers of useful inventions of all kinds,
which necessarily require long space
of time for their origination, their iml;7
provement and their extension. All
the remaining portions of the human
race are now divided into a multitude
of wild and barbarous ahordes. whose
whole and sole employment, consists
in the the care of cattle, hunting and
robbery hence the slave-trade already
in the time Of Abraham. Soon after
this period, a few feeble sparks exhib-
tied to us also Europe from the Don
even to the columns of Hercules, eyel
lin the same condition as to its popula
ton; but in this region also we SCI
already here and there traces of civil.
ization; of the arts, of industry and ,ot
commerce., for example7-the, trade il
amber on the Baltic Sea, and that o
tia. in the British Islands. ALI this i
4 exhibited in the obscure distance
where only here and there glimmel
forth few brilliant points, in orde
4 ito yield for lis the first germs o
future history, which, however, is 81
lent, and wholly, speeehless as to th'
lSnse and manner; of all these opera
tions and effects. Nothing else thel
remains to 7us but, in all humility ,ote
3envelop ourselves iii the mantle Of ig
norance,r and, at all events to searel
around US in the grand archives of ma
4 ture to ascertain if ne may not ye
here find some documents, which ma.
direct us at least to conjectures. Ant
g fortunately these are found. llld 4viafa
y The whole present structure of tn
q surface of the terrestrial globe teache
tus, and Moses himself confirms il
thatait formerly at one time was coy
cred with water, which -oyerfoWed7 IT
: Swhole face at least to a certain height
!. and first gradually subsidized by cause
i,noW unknown to us, and finally lie
z the habitable part of the earth com
forth to light. The highest dry SUI
t face on our globe must, therefore, hav
S been the, earliest inhabited and her
j. Nature, sor rather its creator, mus
. have produced the first people, who's
. multiplication and propagation mus
r have followed the gradual and contin
+ tinuing decrease of the water. l
2 2 without trouble and design, we do nc
: wish to7inVblve ourselves in multi
oEtude of difficulties, we must accer
i this little people as endowed iindee
with all human. capabilities, but "
T. without any knowledge or experience
- the acquisition of which must hay
ia belonged, and have been delivered, I
81 Z the safneas time and circumstances
Il the sequel gave occasion and afforde
e opportunity. But since nature coul
!. not cast her frst-borni and ayetsiney
= perienced son at raniom into the in
measurable kingdom of beings, Ii