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THE ALLEGORY OF THE FALL OF ADAM (Page 274). 



The Semitic legend of the tree of life slioiild be compared with its Aryan 

 counterpart, wherein the same persona), a tree, a fruit and a dragon, figure, and of 

 which De Gubcrnatis remarks: "The legends' concerning the tree of the golden 

 apples or figs, whicli yields honey or ambrosia, guarded by dragons, in which the life, 

 the fortune, the glory, the strength, and the riches of the hero have their beginning, 

 are numerous among every people of Aryan origin ; in India and in Persia, in Russia 

 and in Poland, in Sweden and in Germany, in Greece and in Italy, po])ular myths, 

 poems, songs, and fairy tales amplify with a great variety of incidents, partly un- 

 conscious of their i)rimitlve sigiiitication, this strange subject of phallical cosmogony." 



On the same page De (jubernatis gives a variation of the legend of the Cross 

 which he concludes with the following words pregnant with meaning: "To the 

 continuers of the admirable studies of Strauss and Renan will be reserved the office 

 of seeking the sense hidden in tliis myth, made poetical by the evangelical morals. 

 When we shall be able to bring into Semitic studies the same liberty of scientific 

 criticism, which is conceded to Aryan studies, we shall have a Semitic Mythology; 

 for the present, faith, a natural sense of repugnance to abandon the beloved super- 

 stitions of our credulous childhood, and more than all, a less honourable sentiment of 

 terror for the opinion of the world have restrained men of study from examining 

 Jewish history and tradition with entire impartiality and severity of judgment. 

 We do not wish to appear Voltairians, and we prefer to shut our eyes not to see, and 

 our ears not to hear what history, studied critically and positively, presents to us less 

 agreeable to our pride as men, and to our vanity as Christians." 



Well did James Russell Lowell write : 



"I do not fear to follow out the truth, 

 Albeit along the precipice's edge. 

 Let us speak plain : there is more force in names 

 Than most men dream of : and a lie may keep 

 Its throne a whole age longer, if it skulk 

 Behind the shield of some fair-seeming name. 

 Let us call tyrants, tyrants, and maintain 

 That only freedom comes by grace of God, 

 And all that comes not by his grace must fall ; 

 For men in earnest have no tim(i to waste 

 In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth." 



OATHS IX PATRIARCHAL TIMES (Page 274). 



Those who would know more of the curious oath imposed by Abraham (Genesis 

 xxiv. 2), and again by Israel (Genesis xlvii. 29), may refer to Dr. Ginsburg's obser- 

 vations on oaths in Kitto's Cyclopaedia, or Dr. Inman's work, vol. i. p. 79. 



TECTONA GRANDIS (Page 301). 



The following arc some of the results arrived at by me with reference to the 

 experiments in question. So far as I know they are uncontradicted on their merits 

 to this day. 



"Forty-four samples were experimented on. Of this number, six were described 

 as ungirdled teak, from the Tharrawadi forests. To these must be added three from 

 Karennec, three from foreign Thoungyecn, and four from Mandalay, all which I 

 have reason for treating as ungirdled, though it is not stated in the experiments. 

 Should this bo objected to, yet my general conclusion is not impaired ; since, tliough 

 the inclusion of these ten samples among the girdled teaks would raise their average 

 breaking weight from 182 to 192, yet their abstraction from the column of unginlled 

 teaks would raise their average also from 238 to 241 lbs. breaking weight ; or, to place 



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