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We should now have proceeded to the Philosophy of Man , his mind and ltd exercise , his duties and relations , his frame and structure , and his final expectations . In this part of the work Dr . Carpenter has the principal share 5
assisted , however , by Mr . Joyce on Political Economy , and by Mr . Shepherd on the Evidences of Christianity . But this is so important a part of the work * and so particularly adapted to afford interest to the readers of the
Monthly Repository , that we must make it a separate article . V . F . ( To be concluded in the next Number . ) _ -1 fc
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in fact , a jumble of history and fable ^ and little else than the common-place book extracts of a compiler without learning and judgment . The fate of the Ten Tribes is one of the points not cleared up by history . Hence , imagination has on this topic
free scope . Some writers have placed this lost portion of the House of Israel in the East Indies , and some in North America . Modern Jews , who are distinguished at once by credulity and unbelief , are disposed to receive
the fable of Benjamin of Tudela , ( copied by aw author , pp . 32—S 4 >) respecting the river 8 abbatyon 9 u which derived its name from its ceasing to flow on Saturday , " on the banks of which marvellous stream , unknown
to profane geography , great numbers of Jews dwell . " This sacred stream may be safely placed in the neighbourhood of the country , where the aforesaid traveller , " who has not amused his reader" ( according to Mr . Sail man ' s manuscript , ) «* with
aecounts of miraculous proceedings /' ( p . % ) found a tower built by Balaam , ( p . 4 , ) Nebuchadnezzar ' s fiery furnace , ( p . 14 , ) Ezekiel ' s tomb , ( p . 17 , ) and " the original of his prophecies , written by li ? s own hand , " ( p . 16 ) . Even sober Jews of the present day believe that the scattered Tribes " are still
in the East : but if , as they acknowledge , ( p . 12 S , ) " the families and tribes are not distinguished , * but are , on the contrary , confounded with the various Asiatic nations , how is their looked-for restoration possible ? Difficulties attend every hypothesis ; but the more probable opinion is , that remains of all the twelve tribes
returned to the Holy Land with Ezra : on the dedication of the second temple £ t a sin-offering" was made 4 * for all Israel , twelve lie-goats ^ according to the number of the tribes of Israel" ( Ezra ,
vi . 17 ) . Paul , in his speech before Agrippa , describes the twelve tribes as then existing in Judea ( Acts xxvi . 7 ); and the General Epistle of James is addressed , ( i . 1 , ) " to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad . ' *
Our Rabbi gives a succession of names of supposed Jewish rulers in the East , who are dignified with the title of Meads or Prinees of the ' 4 ? aptivitfj . One of th / ese , Ananns > i » te ± presented <* & belonging to ihe seventh
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576 ttevietv . ' —Sailmaris Researches in the East .
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Aw ? . II . —The Researches in the East ; or , an Important Account of the Ten Tribes of Israel , fyc . fyc . By the Rev . M . Sail man . 8 vo * Pp . 154 . 5 * . 6 d . 1818 .
MR . SAILMANis the author of the pamphlet on the London Society for converting the Jews , reviewed Vol . XIL , pp . 684 , 685 , and the success of that publication has emboldened him to appear again in print . He describes himself in the
tttle-page , which , Hebrew and English together , makes a full page , as ¦ * Hebrew Lecturer , Portsea ; " an office which we do not understand , but which we presume Mr . Sailman considers as an authority for taking the title of Reverend . In the former
pamphlet he contented himself with the designation of " Teacher of Hebrew , Southampton . ' * The present work is in whole , or in part ( for it is so confused that we cannot speak more definitely ) , a translation from the Hebrew of Rabbi David
Raphael Sodo : of w horn the translator tells us only , that " he was led by his ancestors to believe that he himself was a descendant from the tribe of Naphtali , * ' that his father , a man of letters , * was employed in an embassy in the East , ' and that the son , then
18 years of age , attended him , and that he took the opportunity of inquiring after the Ten Tribes , minuting down the fruits of his researclies , though ihe manuscript ** was not intended
by him for publication . " The lastmentioned fact is the only proof ftirwished by Mr . &ailmau of Mabbi David Raphael Sodtfs good sense . The misnamed " Researches " a * e ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/40/
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