New-York tribune., 1870-04-30

,osroct yvas maid 70 woman, amounting almost TO
worship--as, for example, these Man IL sHens'n'
woman in beauty; he is the reason that rules she s
the wisdom that moderates man Is incoinpieto WIN
out woman; he who desplses woman despiscs ~"
mother he who is cursed by a woman is curSeu w
God the tears of woman call down the iiio VI
heaven on those who make them How; wolhah i' 'n'
soul of humanity'-expreSs the sentiments Vi wv
tbousond wears after Christ. rather than of thou
sand years before him. Not ancient India, put uiou
ern Europe is the mother of rhapsodies ike those'
As 70 the Jingle and juggle Of proper names when
figures 40 largely among NJ Jacolliots Evidences,
that ia an old trick which philoogsts smile at Cr
cal scholars in the Semitic and Aryan Ian guages ha
the barrers presented by the peculiarties OF each
too stubborn to be frisked over by this adrot slit
ing about of letters There is resemblance, GER
tainly between Christina and Christ but IL hhphes
no intercourse between India and Palestine nor
could sucb intercourse be inferred from a radical
identity in the names for Christ is Greek woru
and 80 is Jesus" for which NJ. Jacoot deity SUD
stitutes his Jezeus," whatever that may be- The
Hebrew word is "Yoshuah,D and it has not even the
same signifcation with the Greek name
Glancing over the parallel passages by when the
author tries to make out an intimate historical rea-
ton between the Vedas and the Bible the preceps'
SMILES myths, legends which the two hteIatures
have or seem 10 nave In colluiol, VIC diiiiU, 'N'
tatingly a striking similarity of sentiment, idea,
and statement. But it is a similarity to which at
tention was called great while ago, and the
estimate of which has been on the decrease rather
than the increase in proportion as definite knowledge
has cleared away the mistS that apprehension and
imagination conjured up. If the spurious passages
are stricken out, and correct interpretations are
given to the genuine ones, what remains Is neither
very encouraging 20 the skeptic very dsconcert-
ing TO the believer At all events, they may be ex-
planned without resorting to the hypothesis that
either literature owed its existence to the other.
1t is probable that the Vedas are older than our
Hebrew Bible though all scholars are not agreed on
that point But granting them to be so, 1t does not
follow that the Bible was derived from the Vedas;
nor would an occasional sympathy of thought fur-
nish ground for the opinion that they mingled their
contents. In fact the lines of Semitic and Aryan
tradition ran in such distinct channels that the sup
position of their blending on Paestinian ground Is
too violent TO be entertained any but the strongest
evidence. But we are dealing too seriously with NJ.
Jacolliots book. 1t Is not worth the time anu
thought that we have bestowed on it, We have
given to it thus much consideration not because III
deserves it, but because the volume is of kind likely
to do mischief among fearful and uninsructed people
who mistake assurance for knowledge 1t is equally
the concern of believers and Of unbeevers to have
perfectly honest treatment of religious questions,
and such treatment is not obtained at the hands Of
NJ. Jacoot