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f 8 Tev whoiry insignifi < cant as objects of rational inquiry ; aj ^ , IW&QwHjpftto fessing tJ ? e least jvene ^ ion ^ foi- ; # at w ^ ichr ^ ^ pc ^^ ^ e ^ nsig ^ rPwe , m $ t $ $ t ^ c ^ $ m ^ ^ bi ^^^ feCmt ^ J ^ gStlhjtit tWe our sj&ce p £ time , in devoting a ppiti ^^ r- ^^'^^ p ^ rj ^^ r ¦
tigation ., . ,.,.. ' . , . . - ; : ¦ ¦ * . ¦ .,. ; - ^ . -n ;> - ^ -: ^ : / f /!>; m ^ idl-ooHj :-^ : Jj basbeen a question among scholars and antiquarie ^ yi ^ jb ^ e ^ ^ h ^ f ^ iH gii | K anji mythology , of Egypt and India were so closely conn ^ c | e 4 ^ aSi ^ Sori / 5 , to HaVe been the Source of the other ; and if sio , whiebpreesdecl-Mfid , yfrfate followed . * fhe points of resemblance are many and striking ^ but |»<^ & * ffi& sd -flKui the points of dissimilarity . The antiquity of t , h ^ e Tnon ^^ nt ^ >< $ ¦
Egypt is ' undoubtedly much greater than that of the morfin ) en \ & M ¦¦ & $ & * & The dry climate and barren soil of the one country is en ^ in ^ lly favourable to the duration of architectural edifices ; the moist clini ^ te and g& *} b $ m $ vegetation of the other is destructive even of its caver-nousi ^ xc ^^ ioas j fte most durable form , not even excepting the pyramids * in ;; wbiefrahttrwi «
labour can be transmitted to remote posterity . There is , in , E ^ ypt ) bjsjt ^ ripa | as well as local evidence of the antiquity of sonie of ils-terapifs exe ^ iJiBg the age of three thousand years ; and yet on some of these ,, thye cafe ^ mfi ^ tS the painter and the red ochre pencil-tracings of the sculptor ,-ar& fas fr ^ sb ^ as when they were first put on , there never having been ^^© e ientrf ^ i ^^ el ia the atmosphere ( where rain never falls , and where dew is Mnk ^ o ^ nVtM < diln
the lustre of the one or obliterate the faintest lines of the-iOtb ^ r ^ thrpjigli thirty centuries of time ! In India , on the contrary , where for half w $ year the sky pours down floods of rain , and for the other half the sun exhales it in steam and vapour , a building of a single year old would require . repairing and repainting , and half a century of neglect ( as in . the splendid \ riuinscof Dacca ) is sufficient to cause the most colossal . monuments , pf ; $ * $ i qpuntr ^ caverns and hewri rocks alone excepted , to be topple ^ down and ov ^ rturnftd by the united powers of destructive vegetation , and decaying- heat
andiHioisture . In the monuments that remain in each country , -how ^ yetT ^ h ^ a # e very striking differences : first , in those of Egypt the outline is ^ iaiwgys , ^ culiarly chaste and simple ; in India the outline is grotesque l ^^^ fec ^( a ^ fantastic . In those of Egypt the sculptured representatiojasf dp , ''^( tj " |^ in uQ&pi instance , exhibit beings with many heads , arms , or legSr ^^ ri ^ aB ^^ atenti excepted , and he has a hundred ; in India , however , this , ^ u ) t » piliGatiP ^ ^ f heads and limbs attached to one body is frequent . In , Egypt jt h ^/ SquJpM ^
are j ( lj [ in low relief ; in India they are in very high relief , ; aipountipg ^ almost to statuary . In India the dead were burned , and scattered to the ^ n cjs . ; in E gyj }* tney were embalmed and carefully preserved , in stp « e sarcophagi Thfee . ajje' the points of difference . The points of resemblanqei are ,-niu bom colossal dimensions—in both , human bodies with heads of animals ™ in boifH , ' representations of offerings in fruits and flowers ^ in hoik * ajnmnerrous and privileged priesthood—in both , the worship of the serpent and the veneration ^ ftjije , lotus—in both , the doctrine of tfee ^ e ^ nip ^ yqliosisi and &l hdm |
corts ^ mj } | bs , tinfince fro n > animal fpod . Qp th ^^ W ^ l w -ifaltho . « gh the din ^ er ences a ^ e cpnsi ^ era ] ble the re 8 $ ^ jftK ^ HM ^ stri ^ f ^ i ^ R' ^^ S . ^ iW " ?^ ^ ° f % yj > t , by t ^^ r ^ n ^ b ^ rwy , a detadi ^ Vot ^ un ^ Miftifey ^ W Si ^ , mdw Ge £ rYMil ^ * t $ » ri * M , MO * across the Desert to the Nile , they had no sooner reached J ^^ oto ^ ltnli sacred stream , and entered one of the ruined temples of Isis , at Tentyra ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/24/
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