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strengthened rather than eliminated by the
employment OF such means as are proposed.
In conclusion, it may be added that if half 4
million OF Americans, with their superior
should settle down In Germany and compete
with the phlcg.natic Teutons they would be
in much greater danger of persecution than
the Jews are arthe present day. F. URo-
EGYPToLoGY.
WAS THoTHMEs ILL., THE PHARAOH OF TIE
MOSAIC ERA.
Ntu FORK World. Dec =.
In Room No. 36 Of the Cooper Union last
evening DR., David ?. Holton, the Core
spending Secretary Of the American Phiio-
logical Society, read before that body paper
prepared by Gustavus Seyffarth on "'fi1o
Alexandrian Ohelisk in New York: Its Age
and Inscriptions" Prot. Seyfarti says
'this monolith, at present 8, TAG years old, is
one of the oldest monuments Of ancient art,
literature, history, and theology. It is closely
connected with the records of the Old Testa-
ment. 1t is one of twenty-l,ine obelisks
saved from the barbarian hands Of the Per-
slams $500 3. CO. and theArabians t69 4. C.).
1t was the sixth left in Egypt by the Euro
peans. It belongs to the eight greatest
o6elisks erected by the Egyptian Kings. The
pyramidion contains four Inscriptions. On
the right side Of the shaft three long perpen-
dicu1ar lines are to be seen, each Of the lat
ter containing about fifty words. The whole
of the obelisk must have contained 200
groups, more or less. and nearly sixty have
been etfaced. What have these hero
glyphic lines to tell us? Who
is able to translate them into English
dramatically and logically? What is the
real KEY. to Egyptian literature so long
an Extended review Of the attempt Of differ
ent Egyptuioslsts to declpher, hleroEfyphs
and his reasons for believing that the real
key to Egyptian literature was unknown to
ChampollIon and his successors. lie then
"Thc Egyptian literatnre does not consist
half Of ilealoeic {symbolic) and half of
alfabetic signs, but has Gso figures OF
natural objects-men, limbs, animals, trees,
expressing two or three consonants COLI
tanned III the respective names Of the figures.
No hieroglyph signifies synlbolically Q word
or idea. It Is erroneous to conclude that the
The temple oil the entrance of which both
the American and London obellsks once
stood was dedicated to the Lord, the
Creator of the World The language Of the
ancient Egyptians {the. so-called sacrea
the primitive language, the Hebrew On the
pyramIdion of this nbelisk we, notice this
inscription: The King Offering mansion
to the Almighty {being on one side called
the illnstrious Lord and on the other the
Creator.'l This God gives in remuneration
to the King his own government and
power.'"
LII order to get at the correct age Of the obe,
lisk Prof. SeyHarth gave an extended
history of Egypt from the earliest recorded
ages. and then said: = In conclusion, we pro-
ceed to the question of what years the Kings
Kamcses II. and Thothnes III. mentioned on
our obelisk reigned and died. SINCE me
first King, Menos settled in Egypt 27s0 B. G.,
GG6 years after the deluge, and since the
tablet Of Nydos specifies thirty-elssht kings
from Menos down to the death Of Kalneses
H., and since the same thlrty-el:ht kngs
reigned ], 106 years, it is obvious that RAM
t eses II. must have died about the year 10TH
B. e. My computation has been examined
and confirmed by the late Director Ut the
Dudley Observatory at Albany, 1,ro1:
Mitchell. The age of Thothmes ~ IS hSed
by the same historical and a5Iononlcau
'certatnties He was the thirty-hrst King aft
er Menos (sEs0 E. C), and since at that time
each king reigned on an average twenty,1line
and half years, Ihothmes LII must nave
been crowned 50 years after Menus !2tD b.
C.),-that is, about 1695 b. y, anu must
have died in 1S6G 3. c. This result. Is
much more Important than the Champullioll-
lists from 1923 to 1880 have Imagined, for the
evidences that our ThothmeS LII. was the
RaI