[27:5] Myths of the New World, pp. 203, 204.
[27:6] See Squire: Serpent Symbol, pp. 189, 190.
[28:1] Count de Volney says: "The Deluge mentioned by Jews, Chaldeans, Greeks and Indians, as having destroyed the world, are one and the same physico-astronomical event which is still repeated every year," and that "all those personages that figure in the Deluge of Noah and Xisuthrus, are still in the celestial sphere. It was a real picture of the calendar." (Researches in Ancient Hist., p. 124.) It was on the same day that Noah is said to have shut himself up in the ark, that the priests of Egypt shut up in their sacred coffer or ark the image of Osiris, a personification of the Sun. This was on the 17th of the month Athor, in which the Sun enters the Scorpion. (See Kenrick's Egypt, vol. i. p. 410.) The history of Noah also corresponds, in some respects, with that of Bacchus, another personification of the Sun.
[28:2] See Maurice's Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 268.
[29:1] "In America, along with the bones of the Mastodon imbedded in the alluvium of the Bourbense, were found arrow heads and other traces of the savages who had killed this member of an order no longer represented in that part of the world." (Herbert Spencer: Principles of Sociology, vol. i. p. 17.)
[29:2] Darwin: Descent of Man, p. 156. We think it may not be out of place to insert here what might properly be called: "The Drama of Life," which is as follows:
| Act i. | Azoic: Conflict of Inorganic Forces. | ||
| Act ii. | Paleozoic: Age of Invertebrates. | ||
| Primary |
| Scene i. Eozoic: Enter Protozoans and Protophytes. Scene ii. Silurian: Enter the Army of Invertebrates. Scene iii. Devonian: Enter Fishes. Scene iv. Carboniferous: (Age of Coal Plants) Enter First Air breathers. | |
| Act iii. | Mesozoic: Enter Reptiles. | ||
| Secondary |
| Scene i. Triassic: Enter Batrachians. Scene ii. Jurassic: Enter huge Reptiles of Sea, Land and Air. Scene iii. Cretaceous: (Age of Chalk) Enter Ammonites. | |
| Act iv. | Cenozoic: (Age of Mammals.) | ||
| Tertiary |
| Scene i. Eocene: Enter Marine Mammals, and probably Man. Scene ii. Miocene: Enter Hoofed Quadrupeds. Scene iii. Pliocene: Enter Proboscidians and Edentates. | |
| Act v. | Post Tertiary: Positive Age of Man. | ||
| Post Tertiary |
| Scene i. Glacial: Ice and Drift Periods. Scene ii. Champlain: Sinking Continents; Warmer; Tropical Animals go North. Scene iii. Terrace: Rising Continents; Colder. Scene iv. Present: Enter Science, Iconoclasts, &c., &c. | |
[29:3] Draper: Religion and Science, p. 199.
[29:4] Ibid. pp. 195, 196.
[30:1] Huxley: Man's Place in Nature, p. 184.