Christ And Other Masters An Historical Inquiry Into Some of the Chief Parallel
Christ And Other Masters An Historical Inquiry Into Some of the Chief Parallel
Charles Hardwick
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Such an origin has from Schoolcraft, who closes his careful the first hcen inferred. At what- summary of the ante-Columbian ever point the investigation has traditions (Part i. Pp. 19 sq. ) in been made, the eastern hemisphere the following passage (p. 26) : has been found to contain the ' Thus wchavetraditionaryglcamsu physical and mental prototypes of of a foreign origin of the race of the race. Language, mythology, the North American Indians, from religious dogmas, — the very style separate ...stocks of nations, extend- of architcctvire, and their calendar, ing at intervals from the Arctic as far as it is developed, point to Circle to the Valley of Mexico. . . That fruitful and central source of They point decidedly to a foreign, human dispersion and nationality. ' to an oriental, if not a Shemitic, Religions of America, 125 by Europeans. The former class comprise^ the Mexi- Chap. II. Cans and Peruvians, together with the intermediate Two families of Mayans, and Muyscas of Bogota, who, ^^^**^* •" planted on that side of the continent which looks directly towards Asia, were each an independent centre of civilisation in the midst of wild and bar- barous hordes.^ The second class may be distributed into (1) the Red Indians of North America, (2) the Indians of the Great Antilles, (3) the Caraibs or Carribees, (4) the Indians on the Eastern coast of South America.
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