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other, to produce that permanent manifestation in their 

 forms and opinions which separates them from human 

 society, as it were, by a lasting miracle ; still the per- 

 secuted Jew bears on his front the tokens of mental 

 power, in his make the attributes of physical strength, 

 and in his heart the feelings of mercy and charity, 

 which all the vices acquired by degradation, or natural 

 to his temperament, cannot efface ; for since a more 

 humane treatment is afforded to the race, constant 

 examples of good, benevolent, and liberal actions, 

 embellish their conduct, even more than in the feudal 

 ages their learning and research illustrated their mental 

 capacities. 



THE BABYLONIANS, CHALDEES, AND 



ASSYRIANS. 



THE nations now to be considered, though differing 

 among themselves, were evidently all of one family, 

 obscurely traceable to eastern Armenia and Atropa- 

 tene, whence, as they spoke dialects of Semitic lan- 

 guages, it is evident, that like the Arabs, they had 

 come originally from the high lands in the east. They 

 were, moreover, advanced in civilization, had solar 

 and astronomical religions, with legends of Fish-men 

 legislators, whose persons and doctrines revealed a 

 diluvian reminiscence, distorted into Indian forms. 

 In their record, the first dispersion of mankind was 

 transposed from the high table land of Asia to the new 



