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SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 567 
tality . printers’ errors which he had pomno perfectly well 
zed. “The receiver is as bad as the thief.” 
It will be asked, what may be the proper snd real intention 
of that so unprov oked calumny? Ido not know, and leave 
it to others to decipher this very intricate hieroglyph. Per- 
haps, however, the “ prudent” Egyptologist of the “ orthodox 
school” speculated thus :—As the system opposed to Cham- 
pollion’s has already discovered and explained the most im- 
portant bilingual and other inscriptions, and enables every 
one familiar with the Coptic (except the Dublin Hieroglyph- 
ist) at last to translate entire Egyptian texts, the nimbus of 
the “great master,” and the glory of the whole “ orthodox 
school,” runs the risk of being forgotten. Therefore, the best 
expedient i is to kill off the fatal system, and, as far as possi- 
ble, deform and defile it, that all eyes may be averted from 
the dead carcass. Then, it will be easy to understand that 
the immortal followers of Champollion were never “ tempte 
to steal treasures of that kind ;” it will be possible to trans- 
form the whole system of Champollion, insensibly, and “step 
y dwn into the opposite one; and finally, by means of the 
sare Sete osed wrong system, to translate, “step by step,” 
the whole Egyptian literature. And thus, of course, some 
greater glory would reflected upon the head of the “ great 
master,” and upon all other members of the “orthodox 
pwn without the lisprabetial confession vo the “great 
master” had oe led to discover the real Mag to the E 
At least, there is a beginning made alre ye ag 
in the 4th No. of the Atlantis, the 3 next after the article 
question, the same author tells ‘his readers—* In the _ num- | 
ber of he Atlantis, I said that the idea of sy : 
where, as sty» as 1859, it has mea cleat demonstrated that 
= yllabie peer all the 600 peian hieroglyphs were 
Seyffarth, but Young, or rather 
the ‘great he ett tg Besides me the « orthodox schoo?” 
of Dublin probably spovalised thus :—Should the worst come 
to the he at least no calumny i is fruitless ; for — ali- 
quid manet! 
= be so or not, at least it needs a great deal of dullness 
believe that articles of that kind would succeed in realiz- 
a2 Such hopes ; for the world (the Lord be praised!) is still 
7 ers, grammatical | 
eer i method of expl ini 
of gentlemen, who see through, and 5 3 
: qusehood and imposition. Prom y eae avaes me a 
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