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opment, covering with nations every congenial lati- 

 tude, and portending at no distant era to bear rule in 

 every region, if not by physical superiority, at least by 

 that dominion, which religion, science, and enterprise 

 confer. Constituting, as we here show, the most im- 

 portant, the most elevated, and highly organized 

 type of Man, it becomes interesting to search out the 

 original seat where geographical as well as historical 

 and legendary evidence attest it was cradled, and 

 whence, under the conditions of existence which now 

 surround it, fair induction shows the great races of 

 this stock commenced to radiate in all directions. 



Egyptian antiquity, when not claiming priority of 

 social existence for itself, often pointed to the regions 

 of Habesh, or high African Ethiopia, and sometimes 

 to the north, for the seat of gods and demigods, be- 

 cause both were the intermediate stations of the pro- 

 genitor tribes. The Hellenic nations, when they 

 searched for their own aboriginal source, a part of 

 their ignorant vanity, sought them in the farthest 

 north, beyond the dominions of Thrace, and knew of 

 moral Lactophagi, of gods and sages, among the 

 Hyperboreans, which could be no nearer than the 

 Borysthenes or Dnieper. Ionia and Western Asia 

 claimed those sources of nationality for the high lands 

 beyond the Euphrates, or for Armenia, where the lan- 

 guage was partly Finnic, and further north-east on 

 the Oxus, where the forms of speech were still more 

 Hyperborean. Even Delos had three priestesses, 

 natives of the distant north, and Olen, a high priest, 



