THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN \NI» N ATI l: \l.Kl. 





i.s the fate of everything; that Law, fixed and 

 eternal, governs the minutesl particles of mat- 

 ter as of rolling worlds. 



Man lives liis brief life, passes away and i- 

 sueceeded by others. Another generation re- 

 peats itself. So it has always been — -so it will 

 ever be. There really was no beginning, there 

 can be no ending. 



We may render homage to ;i master mind 

 who designed all, and called all into being, or 

 insist that all is self-existant and eternal, and 

 we shall find the result is the same. It saves 

 one step in the grand scale of creation. The 

 ancients thought the earth was a plane, and 

 rested on pillars; that the pillars rested on :i 

 rock, and the rock on a turtle's back. But 

 what does the turtle rest upon ? was the inquiry 

 of the sceptic. 



The logic that there is no design without a 

 designer, no law without a lawgiver, is only a 

 repetition of the pillar, rock, and turtle theory 

 as regards the earth. 



The sceptic of to-day meets all our argu- 

 ments in regard to a first cause with the syl- 

 logism : " All the works of the Creator give 

 evidence of design. As no design can exist 

 without a designer, therefore," say they, " the 

 Creator must have had a designer." Astrono- 

 mers found that the earth did not rest upon 

 pillars; that there was no need of a rock 

 for them to stand upon ; nor a turtle's 

 back to support the rock ; so when humanity 

 shall better understand the forces of Nature, 

 self-inherent in matter, which calls world's 

 into being and endows them with motion 

 k and life, there will be less need for trying 

 to comprehend that which is incompre- 

 hensible. The Law governing the mighty 

 machinery of the universe ; which keeps 

 all in equal poise; which causes the earth- 

 quake and the upheaval of vast moun- 

 tain chains; which drains oceans and sinks 

 continents; which fills the atmosphere with 

 lurid flame; and startles the people with its 

 thunder crash ; which gives rise to the winds. 

 the waves and the tides, the heat of summer, 

 the cold of winter, and the thousands of other 

 incidents of well defined Law, once ascribed to 

 the action of an angry God, is now well un- 

 derstood. As knowledge is further developed, 

 other secrets of nature will be revealed, and 

 the mythical causes will be further and further 

 removed into the realms of the ignorant past. 

 The genuine student has no theories predi- 

 cated upon early teachings. The great book 

 of Nature is wide open before him, penciled by 

 unerring Law, and everything must be tested 



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Tin- Sanscrit i- probablj I 

 modern European lai 

 roote of the Latin, Greek, I 

 Slavonic It is the Bncienl 

 prevailed throughout Hindostai 

 Gulf of Bengal to the Arab ai 

 to the Himalaya mountains on the north. 

 language has not been spoken 

 thousand years. The sacred bool 

 Brahmads wen- written in it, and, i. 

 been preserved to modern times, without 

 alterations common to a living lang 

 our ancient literature has been transmits 

 us through the Greek and Latin. - 

 find the original ot many of our m\th- :n the 

 Sanscrit, the story of " William 'L II "' 

 one of them, though the 

 located in Switzerland, and the occurrei 

 made to have transpired within a flew hui 

 years. 



We stated in a firmer article that the 

 account of a general deluge was undoubt 

 copied by Jewish historians — priests, Joseph n* 

 tells us, — from Babylonian records, while 



the Israelites were captives, in that country. 

 The Babylonian history, without question, 

 was the source from which the flood ot 



caleon, as well as that ot N'oah, was der 



hut the story was older than Nineveh or 



Babylon ; it was transmitted to them from a 



still older civilization ; it came to those ancient 



people through the Sanscrit literatim-, the 



con 1 1 iion fountain from which Chaldea, Assyria 



Persia, and Egypt, were supplied, and Irom 



which the Phoenicians drank second hand, as 

 did the Bebrews. 



The geography ot the old Sanscrit b*>k.< 

 describes the world as - a circular plain, with 

 a slightly convex surface, sloping gently on 

 all sides to a surrounding ocean. Beyond \\\\~ 

 ocean, which incloses the world in a \..- 

 like circle ol' water-, was a circular ■.. g 

 mountains, beyond which none but the I 

 powerful gOJS could pass. In the cent: 

 the world, at the highest point ot its surface. 



stood Mount Meru. with Jambu-dwipa, the 



primeval home of the Aryan race, spread out 

 around it," bordered by six other grand d 

 ons ot the earth. 



These mountains bordering the ancient 

 ocean supported the vast vault which spanned 

 the heavens. Above this vault was the home 

 o\' the superior gods. From their hand direct 



