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graph , ( to which a parallel is not superadded to any other commandment , ) denouncing the most awful indignation of God on the guilty transgressor . Even at this day the Jews still maintain it a point of conscience not to eat any flesh that has been touched with milk . Their zeal for
this precept is carried so far in our own times as to insist on the indispensable propriety of adapting separate utensils for different viands , one for dressing animal food , and another for preparations of milk diet ; two knives , one appropriated exclusively
to cut flesh-meat , and the * other cheese ; two salt-cellars , and two towels or napkins , with distinctive marks inserted , are furnished in order to keep this law inviolate . Whence we may conclude that the Jewish nation would not have been constrained to
this excess of rigid observances had not the rite , abolished by the interdict , been contaminated by its magical , idolatrous nature , and if fcheir remoter ancestors , who were sensible of
its tendency , had not guarded their descendants from its contagion by traditions that serve in perpetuity to vindicate the precincts of this law . Doubtless , the rite of sacrificing a lamb or kid seethed in his mother ' s
milk , was peculiar to demoniac mysterieSj and the Jewish lawgiver interposed with divine authority to prevent the Hebrews from participation in the service of Jehovah , and of the table of demons . Sir William Jones
observes concerning that most extraordinary people , the Jews , " that with all the sottish perverseness , the stupid arrogance , and the brutal atrocity of their character , thev had the
peculiar merit of preserving a rational and pure system of devotion in the midst of wild polytheism , inhuman or obscene rites , and a dark labyrinth of errors produced by ignorance and fiupported by interested fraud . " WILLIAM EVANS .
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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for October , 1825 . SCHILLE R ON THE MIGRATION OF NATIONS . Schiller was one of the haughty aristocracy of literature . He seems to have disdained communion with the vulgar mind . Ambitiously he soared about
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882 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for October * 1825 ,
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in a region where only the few ecmid hope to accompany him . His i ntellect passionately fed on generalities . There is no doubt , also , that he bel longed to that most fascinating , most powerful , yejt not most enviable class of authors , who are slightly ting ed with insanity . O Tasso , Swift ,
Byron , Schiller , and ye other kindred demoniacs ! dearly did ye pay for that unearthly inspiration which gave you such quick and fiery glimpses into the truth of relations and things . When I saw the boldness with which Schiller here grapples with one of the most abstract and difficult
subjects , I felt ashamed of my littleness , my concreteness , so to express it , in the great literary creation . What an awful distance and contrast between the sublime and unintelligible theorizer o $ the migrations of nations or the genius of the Mosaic philosophy , and the creeping commentator of a
Monthly Magazine , who , if he have the merit of perspicuousness , feels it but a mark of inferiority ! The study of literature is happy in its tendency , when it thus produces a sentiment , as it now does in my breast , of deep and genuine humility . But let me add , a sentiment also of contentment . For
thus far , by missing the power of writing like Schiller ^ I have perhaps avoided his sleepless nights , his cadaverous constitution , his early death . I have read this translated composition over , I think , not less than
twenty times . As a translation , it is excellent . It well represents the marble-like simplicity , weight and purity of Schiller ' s style . But I could not now sit down and talk about the migration of nations , and tell a friend at what the author has been aiming .
The composition is a lyric in prose . It exhibits all the arts and instances of obscurity , being a master-piece m that way . As far as I understand it , I am not sure that the philosophy is quite true . Some historical events the author ascribes to systematic causes , and others he mistily covers
over by referring , them to what he calls fortune . But this last seems to be a shield of ignorance and very unphiiosophical . He might have as well referred every , thing- to fortune When he is aware of the circumstances under which men in the middle ages acted , he assigns them ingeniously
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/10/
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