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Analyses of Books . 
and surely with the eye than with the ear.” We much regret 
that we are unable to understand the diagrams — music printed 
partly in colours — in which the author seeks to demonstrate his 
views. 
The Natural Genesis : or, Second Part of a Book of the Begin- 
nings, containing an Attempt to Recover and Re-constitute 
the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and 
Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouth- 
piece and Africa as the Birthplace. By Gerald Massey. 
Vol. II. London : Williams and Norgate. 
In our issue for July of the present year we had the pleasure of 
giving a notice of the first volume of this extraordinary work. 
We could do no other than recognise its importance as the first 
systematic attempt to throw the light of Evolution into regions 
where it has been hitherto ignored, if not systematically rejected. 
At the same time we cannot help feeling that Mr. Massey runs 
some danger, to use an old proverb, of falling to the ground be- 
tween two stools. On the one hand, the men who best under- 
stand and value Evolution, such as embryologists, taxonomists, 
and palaeontologists, will be apt to turn away from the contem- 
plation of myths and mysteries as something totally outside the 
sphere of their researches and studies. On the other hand, the 
mythologists, the students of primaeval history, religions, and 
languages, regarding for the most part man as a being who has 
not risen from an original bestial condition, will be apt to give 
the author’s views only a very scanty and superficial examina- 
tion. We would venture a word of remonstrance with both 
parties. The naturalist claims, and must claim, anthropology as 
a part of his legitimate subject, and should therefore not over- 
look a work which so distinctly asserts and establishes this his 
claim. Again, the archaeologist, the historian, and the philo- 
logist, if their objeCt be really the discovery of truth, should not 
shrink back in horror at finding the faCts of their respective 
sciences or eruditions set before them from a novel point of 
view. 
The present volume treats, in successive chapters, of the 
natural genesis and typology of the mythical creations, the na- 
tural genesis and typology of the fall in heaven and on earth, of 
the deluge and the ark, of the natural genesis of time and the 
typology of the word or logos, and the typology of equinoctial 
christolatry. 
We must at once admit that there is in this volume, even more 
than in the former one, much which cannot be legitimately dis- 
cussed in the “Journal of Science,” and much, also, which we 
are not qualified to deal with anywhere. To certain passages, 
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