516 HAUPT— AN ANCIENT PROTEST [April 22, 



^■' Like Deborah, Esther, Judith, &c. 



^'^Cf. the observation of the narrator (see n. 3) in Genesis, ii., 

 24: Therefore a man leaves his parents and clings to his mnfe. The 

 rendering shall leave (Matt., xix., 5; Mark, x., 7) is incorrect; it is 

 not a prophecy, nor is it an old saying dating from remote times 

 when the husband went to the tent of the wife and joined her clan, 

 although it is noteworthy that Eve, not Adam, names the child in 

 Genesis, iv., i (cf. above, n. 28). We may compare the line in the 

 Biblical love-songs (Canticles, viii., 7) where the poet says of Love: 



If one should resign for it all his possessions, 

 could any man therefore contemn him? 



This means, from the Oriental point of view: If a man should 

 sacrifice all his possessions to buy a beautiful girl ; see Haupt, 

 Biblische Lieheslieder, p. iii. Thomas Dixon, Jr., says in his 

 novel The Leopard's Spots of Simon Legree : They say he used to 

 haunt the New Orleans slave-markets when he was young and 

 owned his Red River farm, occasionally spending his last dollar to 

 buy a handsome negro girl who took his fancy. 



^' Cf. the remarks in n. * * to my paper Lsaiah's Parable of the 

 Vineyard in the American Journal of Sonitic Languages, vol. xix., 

 p. 194. 



■'•■ See Haupt, The Book of Canticles, p. 5 ; Biblische Lieheslieder, 

 p. 4. 



•'"Schiller says in the last stanza of his poem Die Weltiveisen: 



Doch vveil, was ein Professor spricht, 



Nicht gleich zu alien dringet, 



Es iibt Natur die Mutterpflicht 



Und sorgt, dass nie die Kctte bricht 



Und dass der Reif nie springet. 



Einstweilen, bis den Bau der Welt 



Philosophic zusammenhalt, 



Erhalt s:'e das Getriebe 



Durch Hunger und (lurch Liebe. 



"•"As a striking illustration of the manner in which some of our 

 leading newspapers occasionally mislead their readers, I will sub- 

 join here the " report " of my paper, which appeared in The Press, 



