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to do. Go to, let us go down, and confound their language, that 

 they may not understand one another's speech." Gen. xi. 6. 

 The punishment was inflicted on men because they wished to 

 build a tower which should reach to heaven. 



1. 29. open, unrestricted, trade, on the analogy of the Latin 

 "commercium," which had the general meaning of '^inter 

 course,'' before it acquired the special meaning of "trade." 



1. 30. imbarred, stopped. 



1. 31. God's first pen, the writer of the first of the sacred 

 books. 



1. 33. seen in, p. 23, 1. 23. 



1. 34. which nation, i.e., learning flourished in Egypt earlier 

 than almost any other country. 



1. 35. Plato brings in, etc., " Thereupon one of the priests, who 

 was of a very great age, said : Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are 

 but children, and there is never an old man who is a Hellene. 

 Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he 

 replied, that in mind you are all young : there is no old opinion 

 handed doicn among you by ancient tradition: nor any science 

 u-hich its hoary with aye." Plato's Timaeus. Cf. Nov. Org., 

 1. 71. 



Page 43, 1. 3. you shall find, you cannot help finding. See on 

 p. 38, 1. 7. the prefiguration of Christ, Christian theologians 

 find in the Jewish ritual a series of types or foreshadowings of 

 the teaching of Christ, or of events in his life. 



1. 4. difference, see on p. 4, 1. 6. the people of God, viz., the 

 Jews, who were distinguished from other nations as "God's 

 chosen people." the impression, the enforcement of. 



1. 8. a moral reduction of the ceremonies, i.e. , a moral inference 

 from the ceremonies. By "a natural reduction" is meant "an 

 inference in physics." 



1. 14. a position, a maxim. When a man is half good and half 

 bad, the attractiveness of his good qualities blinds us to the danger 

 of being infected by his vices. 



1. 19. aspersion, a sprinkling, i.e., an intermixture. See on p. 



1. 26. pensileness, the fact that the earth is suspended. Milton 

 talks of "the pendulous round earth." 



1. 27. the finiteness, etc. , because it is said that our Universe 

 is suspended in empty space. 



1. 28. touched, see p. 42, 1. 5. 



Page 44, 1. 3. he takes knowledge of, he recognises. 



L 14. so forwards, so forth : so on. 



