The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-07-01

TrauaEated from the German of Adelung,
for the Democratic Press.
Accerding to Moses. the first hum,

grated farther towards the East. CAIN s |
descendants dwelt on the east of the |
land of Eden, that is in Thibet. Here |
were Invented the first arts, among |
which may be reckoned the working |
of metals, for which art, there is per-
haps not in any other portion of the
world, so much occasion as in Thibet,
where there are hills of magnetic iron,
where there are silver and copper in
superabundance Also Moses land
SO rich in gold and precious stones
can be no other than Thibet, whose
golden treasures in its northern Sec
tions have been SO highly celebrated
by the myths of the ancients. Noah's
ancestors dwclt on the east side of the
Indus here arose the great Deluge,
and after this, his families lived con-
siderable time in India, and first, after
being compelled by numerous popu-
lation, began to migrate towards West
Asia and now the historian narrates
the story of only one OF these tribes,
and India, which no longer possesses
any interest for him, disappears from
history, yet not SO completely that, in
the sequel, there may not occur sig
nificant traces with him of probably
never interrupted commerce with this
land, the cradle of the human race.
Bailby. in several of his works, pro-
ceeded a step farther, and, from sew
cluded that, before the beginning of
all history, there must have been, in
the high Middle Asia, an enlightened
State, in which all the sciences and
arts, especially Metaphysics, Natural
PHILOSOPHY, Astronomy, Chemistry,
and Medicine, were cultivated to
high degree; but that general ruin
overwhelmed this State and dispersed
its inhabitants; who, migrating, car
ried with themselves single portions
] or their sciences, which, without saw
ing all, they transplanted. Thus, at
the very commencement of History,
there is established, in all West Asia,
the knowledge of the moons motions;
the exact solar gear, SO difficult to be
determined with precision /; the kaoaol-i
edge Of the Zodiac; the doctrine of the
planets and the procession Of the eQui-
nores; on which is founded the doc
trine so ancient of the cycle of the
cords period, containing 5000 gears;
the doctrine, Of the Milleainns, and Of
The final Restoration Of all things
And these sciences, thus cultivated
and propagated, presuppose observa-
tions made during long period be-
fore, which could not have been made
by the Egyptians, the Babylonians
and the Persians, with whom we now
find them. The very precise .Astron-
omical period, or cycle of the Chal-
deaus, embracing 600 years, must have
been several times observed, before it
could have been exactly established.
The modern Hindoos may perhaps
during thousand years have calculat-
ed the eclipses with tolerable aecura-
cy, and may approximately have de-
termined the motions of the sun and
moon, without possessing the least
idea of the grounds on which their
: experience rests, nor could they ever
have had true notion of the same !;
therefore, in their astronomical knowl-
edge, they have not progressed a sim
gle step. Hence Bailby now concludes
that their mechanical dexterity is moth
ing more than the ruins of a former
complete whole which was overthrown
by a great revolution OF Nature. This
revolution he regards as the Noachta,e
Dclatge, which all the Southern and
Western Asiatics have learned from
tradition and its period, they under
stand accurately to agree with that
given by Moses. Southern Asia, in
its rent form, in its innumerable clus-
seegs Of islands, and, in its numerous
. volcanic mountains, even yet now
bears in itself the proofs of such a
revolution. s. .',i ;t3t
u Bailby's theory possesses much that
is convincing, especially when we
consider that it has been given by a
! man SO distinguished for learning and
: sagacity. Only the high latitude of
40 deg, and afterwards of so to go
deg, in which he establishes this his
primitive State, ruins again all his
beautifully erected theory; for, with
this latitude, we meet with the region
wherein Dante plants his he'll, the
realm of the Nolnad Barbarians, from
which, at all times truly Death and
Destruction, but never Illumination
and Science had been spread abroad
over Southern Asia. It is already re-
ported IN the Zeud .4cesta that out of
the North issue the eua Gent, the De-
sol0tOrs of, the world. know well
what led him (Bailby) SO far to the
North; but / also think that without
any damage to his hypothesis, he could
have remained about 25 deg. farther
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Yet whether this original State OF
Bailby may stand or fall, the PROPOSE
,tion, locating the dwelling place OF
the first human families and people
in the south of high Middle Asia, los
es nothing of its probability. And,
il, in this region, q race of people
should even now still be found, which
had yet preserved their language poor,
rude and uncultivated, such as we
might and must believe TO exist in the
childhood of the hnman race and oi
the human mind, this would be very
considerable additional weight in the
scale of probability. And we do real.
ly find such q people, and not one race
only, but whole mass Of nations,
numbering perhaps more than $50 mil.