1850.] Brdhminical Conquerors of India. 7 



and to the same intent, as did the dissection of (Coptic) philology. 

 The knowledge of God like the knowledge of language among the 

 Egyptians has its roots in ancient Asia, in the ancient Armeno-Cauca- 

 sian territory. That this land, defined more nearly, is one of primi- 

 tive Aram, and connected with the primitive kingdom in Babel, — and 

 that the hieroglyphics of Egypt are actually nought else in the image of 

 the world's history, than a still extant peculiarity of the old-time of 

 Aramite-Armenian mankind (according with the same law whereby 

 Iceland exhibits the still extant heathen Norway of the 8th century) 

 — is an historical fact which we will here but assert, proposing to lay 

 the proof of it before our readers in the fourth and fifth book. 



" If we turn from this point to its opposite, the historical period of 

 Egypt, our investigation into the Egyptic origines, will already have 

 made it clear, that the kingdom of Menes itself, rests upon a venerable 

 substructure of several centuries of the Nile valley, rich with the spirit 

 of intellect. Conformably with it must Menes have constituted the 

 kingdom of Egypt, in that he brought together, and united the separate 

 elements of life of Egypt's provinces. Thus do these origins establish 

 true, the assertion made at the opening of this book, that Menes created 

 the historical knowledge of the Egyptians, as did Karlmagne that of 

 the German peoples."* 



Here then we have research supporting inference with such command- 

 ing weight of authority, as to encourage the resumption of ideas still 

 more daring, than those even which suggested an eastern origin to the 

 inhabitants of ancient Egypt, from a stock allied to the Hindu. I have 

 not the fourth and fifth books of Chev. Bunsen's work, indeed I know 

 not if they be published, in spite of enquiry made ; but, I do not think 

 it inexpedient to set forth once again, and, on authority corroborative 

 of the Egyptian tomb-records, that the ancient Egyptians, an eastern 

 people who brought into the Nile-valley the germ of civilization, — 



* I have seen, and indeed possess, a translation of the first Vol. of Chev. Bunsen's 

 Egypt by Charles Cottrell, Esq. M. A. (London 1848); but it is in a style of 

 periphrasis, and not without omissions : I have therefore ventured on the humble 

 verity of as literal a rendering as I could master. Should Mr. Cottrell have 

 translated from a later edition than that of my copy (Hamburgh, 1845, octavo), 

 which has suffered alteration, (and from the variations I should suppose so) part 

 of my remarks do not apply. — H. T. 



