512 THE HORITES. 



of Moab and Ammon should have no rscord ; that Ishmael's grand- 

 sons do not appear ; and these miserable cave-dwellers have so much 

 of Scripture allotted to them ! Whatever view we may be inclined 

 to take of the books of Moses, whether we regard them as an 

 inspired production, or the work of a man wise beyond all his fellows, 

 the problem remains the same. What is the Divine purpose in 

 giving such a genealogy 1 or what was the end of the historian in 

 placing it on record 1 



An objection naturally urged against the attempt to answer such a 

 question is, that neither sacred nor profane history gives us any 

 more information regarding the Horites. This I deny ; for I profess 

 to have opened the door at which many have knocked in vain, and 

 from induction of facts historical, mythological, philological, and 

 geographical, to be able to prove the truth of the following six 

 propositions regarding this ancient people : 



I. That the Horites were no obscure troglodytes, but a race pre- 

 eminently noble and distinguished. 



II. That they have left distinct geographical traces in and about 

 Palestine, which find their counterparts in other lands. 



III. That one family of the Horites appears, in a somewhat dis- 

 guised form, in the second and fourth chapters of the first book of 

 Chronicles, and there furnishes the link of connection with other 

 histories than that of the Bible. 



lY. That in this family we find many of the divinities and some 

 of the earliest rulers of Lower and Upper Egypt. 



Y. That from this family came the Caphtorim, who invaded 

 Palestine before the close of the wanderings of Israel. 



YI. That reminiscences of the Horites, and confirmation of all 

 the preceding propositions, are found in the early history and 

 mythology of Phoenicia, Chaldea, Arabia, Persia, India, Asia Minor, 

 Greece, Italy, and of the Celtic and German peoples. 



I proceed at once to the proof of the above six statements, the 

 first two being simply introductory, and depending greatly for confir- 

 mation upon the establishment of the third and following propositions. 



I. — The Horites were no obscure troglodytes, but a race 



PREEMINENTLY NOBLE AND DISTINGUISHED. 



