Mr. Tomkins. — I Lave taken an intense interest in the remarks made this 
evening by Dr. Curry and Mr. Boscawen. With regard to what the Master 
of the Charterhouse has said, I think I have a most distinct reply. As to the 
Aecadian religion being of lower grade than the sidereal worship which emerged 
later in Babylonia, I have to suggest that there was a differentia in religion 
that varied with the races of men, so that the character of religion corre- 
sponded in the same races. The Accadians never seem to have got to a high 
point of what we call civilization. Others being of a higher intellectual 
character had the good sense to avail themselves of the elementary truths and 
outlines which the Accadians left, and brought them up to those higher stages 
which have been so valuable to the world. Mr. Boscawen has anticipated me 
in what he has said about the notion of a dai/.uov in man. They believed all 
they did was done by the force of the spirit within them, and they paid honours 
to that spirit. And I am not sure that honour paid to that Zi or Saifuov was 
not as high a species of worship as honour paid to the sun and moon that 
walk in brightness in the sky. It was more immaterial worship. The wor- 
ship of this spirit is rather like a relic of the worship of the Oreat Spirit — the 
God above, and seems to me a higher form of worship than the bowing down 
to a material object, whether in the heavens above or the earth beneath. That 
is a consideration in bar of any special condemnation to be passed upon the 
Aecadian system, of which we yet know so little. Though they used magical 
incantations, which survive amongst the Finns, I am not sure that they can 
be classed lower than those who worshipped the orbs of heaven, the starry host, 
and the like. Though their worship involved human sacrifices, which is a 
very dreadful feature of it, in that there survived a distortion and a travesty 
of something supreme. And thus I am not sure that they fell below those 
who had a Pantheistic though more systematized theology. In regard to the 
liver, it was a most important organ. Everybody who has had it disordered 
will agree with that view, even in the present century. You will see how 
important an organ it was considered anciently by the omens drawn from 
it, of prosperity or adversity — “ May thy heart be enlarged, thy liver ex- 
tended!” was the greatest benediction offered. Even to heavenly creatures 
the same expression was used, as in a hymn to Islitar — ct May thy liver be 
enlarged ! ” An English physician would repudiate that as a blessing. 
The Chairman. — In Iudia, when a man has experienced any piece of 
good fortune, the remark is, “ Surely your honour’s liver has become en- 
larged ! ” 
Air. Tomkins. — With regard to another point, the word AlartU, I was 
very much pleased to hear Air. Boscawen use one expression, for a particular 
Hebrews .” The name (“OP) signifies migrators, or passers-over ; aud we can 
easily now comprehend that the sentence refers to a pretended scheme for 
gold-digging, which induced certain persons to cross the sea, apparently 
with little profit. It would be interesting to inquire if this fragmentary 
myth had anything to do with an early discovery of Australia. 
