2ndly. We must acknowledge that the diversity among animals is a fact determined by the will of the Creator, and that their geographical distribution forms a part of the general plan which unites all organized beings into one great organic conception; whence it follows, that what are called human races, including their early separate existence as nations, are distinct primordial forms of the types of man.
In future, the coincidence between the boundaries of the races of man and the natural limits of different zoological provinces must remain an important element in ethnographical studies; and no theory of the distribution of the races of man and of their migrations can henceforward be satisfactory which does not recognize the fact of such a remarkable coincidence.
From this investigation an important inference may be drawn, which cannot fail to have its influence upon the further study of the human races, namely, that the laws which regulate the diversity of animals, and their distribution upon earth, apply equally to man, within the same limits, and in the same degree; and that all our liberty and moral responsibility, however spontaneous, are yet instinctively directed by the Allwise and Omnipotent to fulfil the great harmonies established in nature*.]
* Types of Mankind; contributions of Professor Agassiz on the Provinces of the Animal World and their Relation to the Types of Man, p. lxxvi.
Abel, breath, perishableness, on account of his short life, ii. 85. Aboriginal creations of man (au- tochthones) in the countries which they inhabit, ii. 277. Abraham, described as an his- torical personage, ii. 272; the ideal of a pious worshiper of Jehovah, i. 8, ii. 272. Abram, father of height, high father, patriarch, ii. 271. Affinities of the notes of vo- ciferous animals in different parts of the world not a proof of a common origin, ii. 278. Agassiz, Professor, on the na- tural provinces of the animal world, ii. 275; on the affinities of languages, ii. 278; on the distribution of man and ani- mals, ii. 278-280.
Ages ascribed to first patriarchs, ii. 98, 101.
Agriculture, inferior to pastoral life, ii. 83; antipathy of the Israelites to, traced to their Arabian origin, ii. 83. Air, as an elastic fluid, not known to the Hebrews, ii. 185. Allegorical interpretation, arbi- trary, ii. 73; specimen of, ii. 74. Alluvium, period required for the deposition of, in the plain of Babylon, ii. 196. Alphabet, Hebrew, traced by Ewald to picture characters, i. 38; in English characters, i. 335.
Altenstein, Minister Von, letter of, to Von Bohlen, i. xxiv. Amalgamation of migrating or conquering tribes with primi- tive stocks of nations, ii. 278. Animals, domestic, of Europe, their origin, ii. 275. Animosity against conquered enemies usual in early myths, i. 10.
Arabia, mountains of, ii. 254. Arabic language, the compiler of the Pentateuch acquainted with, i. 48; changes in the, i. 51; names derived from the, i. 87.
Arabs, early annals of, i. 3; un- acquainted with writing before the time of Mahomet, i. 39; their form of government, 134; those of the commercial towns separated from the Semi- tic branch, ii. 222.
Aram, the Chaldæo-Babylonish kingdom, ii. 248.
Aramæan dialect, i. 48; words
quoted in the Pentateuch, i. 63. Ararat, mountain of, ii. 137; covered with snow and ice, ii. 138; probably the highest moun- tain within the horizon of the writer, ii. 139. Archaisms, i. 43. Ark, in the Deluge, a chest, ii.
126; without mention of sails or rudder, ii. 127; three times as long as the largest man-of-
war, not navigable, ii. 128; animals to be preserved in the, ii. 131; absence of air and light, ii. 199.
Ark, of the Tabernacle, a mova-
ble sanctuary, the peculiar a- bode of Jehovah, not mentioned after the destruction of Solo- mon's temple, i. 169; described without costly implements of sacrifice in the time of David, i. 174; not always in the charge of the Levites, i. 189. Arphakshad, Northern Media, ii. 247.
Ashtaroth, or Astarte, licentious worship of, i. 160. Asiatic Society, Royal, notice by
the Council of, respecting Von Bohlen's Ancient India, i. xx. Assyria, river-boats built of re- sinous cypress in, ii. 127. Assyrian government connected with Nineveh, ii. 234. Assyrians flourishing at the pe- riod ascribed to the Flood, ii. 200; first appear in Jewish history B.C. 772, ii. 226. Astrological element in some of
the numerical statements in early Hebrew history, i. 107; principle in the arrangement of the Levitical camp, i. 109. Astrology, high antiquity of, i. 315; knowledge of, ascribed in the East to Abram, in the same way as to Brahma, ii. 272. Australia, remarks on the natural
history of, by Agassiz, ii. 279.
Baal, worship of, in Palestine, i. 158, 159.
Babel, or confusion, ii. 255; Bab
Bel, the Court of Bel, ii. 264. Babylon, exile to, i. 177; district of, unknown to the Jews before the Exile, B.C. 587, ii. 161; city of, taken by Cyrus, B.C. 539, ii. 259. Babylonians, probable inventors
of the art of writing, i. 33; beginning of their year un- known, ii. 180. Babylonian tower, ii. 258. Balaam, prophecy of, i. 213– 215.
Baobab-tree, a seedling in the year B.C. 3300, ii. 194. Beginning, the, means primitive time, ii. 6.
Belief, Hebrew, in the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin, ii. 168.
Belus, ruins of the Tower of, ii. 260.
Birds, formerly taken on a voy- age, to aid in discovering the way to land, ii. 140. Blood, crying for vengeance, ii. 88; contains life, ii. 143; held sacred in sacrifices on account of its vitality, ii. 144; ven- geance for, an established cus- tom widely diffused in the East, ii. 145; avenger of, might be restrained by royal autho- rity, ii. 145.
Bohlen, Von: his birth, 1796, i. xv; his Oriental studies, i. xvi; his marriage, i. xvii; appointed Professor of Oriental Langua- ges and Literature at Königs- berg, i. xviii; his prosperity at its height in 1836, i. xxi; death, in 1840, i. xxiii; views, on the gradual collection of the Hebrew laws, as the Hier- archy became established in Palestine, i. xxvii; has the me- rit of having pointed out the physical basis of the mythical account of a deluge, ii. 176. Book of the Law, narrative of the finding of, in the reign of Jo- siah, i. 256; brought to light by Hilkiah, could not have re- mained for a thousand years uninjured, i. 263; its written character, if of the age of Moses, must have been obso-
lete, i. 263; attributed in the Chronicles to Moses, i. 263. Bopp, Professor, letter of, on Von Bohlen's Ancient India, i. xix. Brahminism, illustrative of the Jewish religious system, i. 7, 11, 196, 203, 286-288. Breath of God, a creating and vivifying power of God, ii. 8; the principle of life, ii. 29. Buckland, Dr., remark by, that multitudes of individuals of each species were originally created where subsequently found, ii. 201.
Bull, domestic, not identical with any of the wild species of Asia, ii. 276.
Bunsen, Chevalier, his chrono- logical table of early Egyptian dynasties, i. xxx.
Cain exposed to misfortune out
of the territory of Jehovah, ii. 89; city built by, ii. 91. Cain and Abel, narrative of, ii. 80; its Israelitish tendency, ii. 81.
Canaan, the land of, its extent,
i. 14; its surface, i. 15; cha- racter of its population, i. 15; allotment by Joshua, i. 17; completion of the conquest of, a leading object with the wri- ters of the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua, i. 17; name of, applied to the primitive races of Palestine, ii. 147; as Pho- nicia, not mentioned in the Se- mitic ii. 221. group, Canaanites in the land in the time of Moses, i. 76. Canaanitish races, ii. 240. Captivity, Babylonish, described in Deuteronomy, i. 98; circum- stances of the, i. 179; results of the, i. 181, 279; mentioned in Judges, i. 185; Pentateuch not referred to before the, i. 244, 251.
Chronicles, books of, contain un- authentic additions to ancient history, to support Levitical pretensions, i. 197; genealogies of the, slowly formed and in- debted to the invention of their authors, i. 198; inconsis- tencies in the genealogies, i. 199; defects in the genealogies, i. 200; give little support to the Pentateuch, i. 201. Church, the, according to Wolff, ordered certain interpretations of sacred doctrine to be proved, in accordance with the circum- stances of the time, i. 27. Circumcision, i. 283. Cities of Palestine mentioned by names with which Moses could not have been acquainted, i.74; of the Plain, ii. 244. Clean animals, according to the Levitical law, ii. 130. Commandments. See Decalogue. Celto-Germanic nations in Cen- tral Europe, ii. 277.
Census, in Numbers, fictitious character of the, i. 112, 113. Ceremonial service everywhere prevalent in the time of the prophets, i. 157. Chaldæan remains, i. 315; cos- mogony, adopted by Zoroaster, ii. 4; year, adopted during the Babylonish exile, ii. 155; year, followed in the myth of the Flood, ii. 156; inhabitants of Babylonia and Mesopotamia, ii. 230.
Chaldaisms in the Pentateuch, often Arabicisms or archaisms, i. 47.
Chavilah, India, including Ara- bia, ii. 35.
Cherubim, ii. 53.
Chiddekel, the Tigris, ii. 37. Christian writers adopted the prevalent ideas of their own time, i. 253.
Constantine, legend respecting
his donation of western sove- reignty to the Popes, i. 332. Constitution of the Israelites con- sidered, i. 131; ancient, under the Judges, i. 136. Cosmogonies, priestly histories usually commence with, i. 41; incorporated with the laws of Asiatic nations, i. 5; of va- rious nations, similar, i. 11. Cosmogony, Hebrew, ii. 1; pious object of the, ii. 5; not alle- gorical, ii. 21; later date of, depends on the institution of the Sabbath, and on its ap- pointment subsequent to Mo- ses, ii. 2; described, to give importance to the Sabbath, ii. 20; second, ii. 22; objects of, to point out the districts first inhabited by the human race, etc., ii. 23; a separate narra- tive, ii. 24; distinguished by the name Jehovah Elohim, ii. 26; or Jehovah God, the two names being in apposition, ii. 27.
Creation, the, exalts our concep- tions of the Divine Artificer, i. xxxii.
Criticism in this work derived from Genesis itself, and from history, i. x. Cush, the African Ethiopia, in- cluding the parent country of the Arabian Ethiopia, ii. 219.
David, name of, employed by the
Hebrews for all that is lyrical in its character, i. 242. Decalogue, tables of the, i. 31; subsequent additions to the, probable, i. 31; simplicity of the, i. 281; mentions strangers in the gate and the sabbath, i. 282; appealed to by the pro- phets, i. 282.
Decretals of Isidore, designed to give authority to the Papacy, i. 269; composed by Isidore,
near the end of the eighth cen- tury, i. 331; proved to be fic- titious, on the revival of let- ters, i. 333.
Deep, great, refers to the clouds piled up, so as to form a great sea above the earth, ii. 132. Deluge. See Flood. Demotic or popular characters on Egyptian mummy band- ages, betray a Phoenician origin, i. 37. Desert, forty years' wanderings in the, i. 85-90, 111; fictitious names of localities in the, i. 88. Deuteronomy, written in Pales- tine, i. 71; probably the book of the law found in the Tem- ple, in the reign of Josiah, i. 260; compared with Jeremiah, i. 270; language of, charac- teristic of a later literary pe- riod, i. 296; traces of fiction in, i. 297.
De Wette, his translation of Gene-
sis adopted in this work, i. xi; letter on Von Bohlen's Gene- sis, i. xxvi; proved the mythic character of the Pentateuch, i. 24. Discernment between good and evil, in Gen. ii., refers to the knowledge acquired after child- hood of what is proper or im- proper, ii. 39.
Divine vengeance invoked by the Hebrews on their enemies, i. 67.
Divines might have been expect- ed to have more accurately ex- amined scriptural records, i. ix. Dualism of a good and evil prin- ciple in Persian myths, ii. 71.
Earth, the centre of the whole creation, ii. 4.
'East, from the,' explained, if Ararat were in Iran or Persia, ii. 261.
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