The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous And Civilized State; An Essay Towards Discovering the Origin And Course of Human Improvement 1
The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous And Civilized State; An Essay Towards Discovering the Origin And Course of Human Improvement 1
Taylor, W. C. (William Cooke), 1800-1849
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But no element of Qi\ili^ation is of mom importance tban the girt of recording events. It is only when man begins to roister the past, that he obtains ^ guide to the fiiture. ' The Patriarch Job, in an admirable cliipax, de- i§cribes four kincjs of waiting ; Qhap.^ xix. 23. O that even now my words were recorded !- O that they were eng^raven on a tablet, With a pen of iron upon lead, That they were sculptured for perpetuity m a rock. ^ ^ * Peruvl,an jugs. f A favourite beverage in South America.... p Ulloa,, vol.. i. p. 368. LOST CIVILIZATION. 236 Here "we have first simple writing, probably on the leaf or bark of a tree— «econdly, engraving on a wooden tablet — ^thirdly, a more permanent record on a metallic plate, and finally the enduring sculpture on everlasting rock. This appears to be not only a climax of duration, but alsa of invention. It is not probable that the first at- tempts at written records should have been made on the hardest substance, and we may very legitimately infer that wherever inscribed rocks are found, there must also have been other less difficult and costly modes of keeping public and private records..
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