B&quot;2 MANNEKS AND FASHION. 



completely these facts liannoni/e with tlie hypothesis, that 

 tlie aboriginal god is the first man sufficiently great to be 

 come a tradition, the earliest whose power and deeds made 

 him remembered ; that hence antiquity unavoidably became 

 associated with superiority, and age with nearness in blood 

 to &quot; the powerful one ; &quot; that so there naturally arose that 

 domination of the eldest which . characterizes all history, 

 and that theory of human degeneracy which even yet sur 

 vives. 



We might further dwell on tlie facts, that T^ord signi 

 fies high-born, or, as the same root gives a word meaning 

 heaven, possibly heaven-born ; that, before it became com 

 mon, Sir or &amp;gt;$Y/r, as well as 2 1 \ithcr, was the distinction of 

 a priest ; that worship, originally worth-ship a term of 

 respect that has been used commonly, as well as to magis 

 trates is also our term for the act of attributing greatness 

 or worth to the Deity ; so that to ascribe worth-ship to a 

 man is to worship him. We might make much of the evi 

 dence that all early governments are more or less distinct 

 ly theocratic ; and that among ancient Eastern nations even 

 the commonest forms and customs appear to have been in 

 fluenced by religion. We might enforce our argument re 

 specting the derivation of ceremonies, by tracing out the 

 aboriginal obeisance made by putting dust on the head, 

 which probably symbolizes putting the head in tlie dust: 

 by affiliating the practice prevailing among certain tribes, 

 of doing another honour by presenting him, with a portion 

 of hair torn from the head an act which seems tantamount 

 to saying, &quot; I am your slave ; &quot; by investigating the Oriental 

 custom of giving to a visitor any object he speaks of ad 

 miringly, which is pretty clearly a carrying out the compli 

 ment, &quot; All I have is yours.&quot; 



Without enlarging, however, on these and many minor 

 facts, we venture to think that the evidence already assign 

 ed is sufficient to justify our position. Had the proofs been 



