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But it is the opinion of acute modern critics that we 

 must go beyond Egyptian to Assyrian, or Indian, 

 perhaps even to Hebrew sources, for the origin of 

 Greek mythology. Bryant traces nearly all the Greek 

 myths to traditions of the dispersion of the Cuthites or 

 Cuseans. And Layard has ascribed to Niebuhr the 

 following significant remarks : ' There is a want in 

 Grecian art which neither I, nor any man now alive, 

 can supply. There is not enough in Egypt to account 

 for the peculiar art and the peculiar mythology which 

 we find in Greece. That the Egyptians did not 

 originate it I am convinced, though neither I, nor 

 any man now alive, can say who were the originators. 

 But the time will come when, on the borders of the 

 Tigris and Euphrates, those who come after me will 

 live to see the origin of Grecian art and Grecian 

 mythology.' 



(Prom The Student, June 1868.) 



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