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bull of Cambyses is to be found amongst them , and instead of a uniform Apis-ship of twenty-five years , we find that it was quite arbitrary , varying from two or three ' years to twenty or thirty , according to the life of the bull . *
Thus the Apis cycle comes to an end , and with it the deceitful light that misled critics to the swamp of cyclical arrangements . Nothing is more fortunate for students of archaeology than to be relieved of the dim presence of this ignus fatuus . The school of
Dupuis , Higgms , Barker , Bryant , and others , and the unfortunate followers of their mistaken theories , melt away into thin air , and the melancholy history of human error is augmented by another signal example of the aberrations under which the mind of man is doomed to suffer .
Erom such a chaos of rude , undigested materials , however , was destined to proceed one of the most brilliant departments of archaeological study ; the oldest and the most important investigations connected with the history of the Old World have been the results of these early attempts to make up for the time which the Greeks had lost in endeavouring , upon the false system of metaphysical inquiry ,
to attain a knowledge rather of the primitive origin of things , than of their vital importance , in that social philosophy which has been scientifically reduced into Sociology . M . de Grobineau , in his admirable " Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races , " f has pointed out that it has been for modern times to recognise the mortality not only of individuals , but of arts , of sciences , and of
nations ; and this very mortality it is that keeps the world young and fresh ; and in the law that all must die , we may again observe the goodness of the Creator , who provides against an eternity of despotism , by imbuing it with necessary mortality , and the centuries , continually repeating and reviving the processes of sociological development , remain ever new , ever fresh , ever interesting to us .
We must now go on farther , and perceive how , in the early dawn of Egyptian discovery , the multitude of materials began to be sorted into parcels , and the value of these parcels rudely estimated , and w ^ e shall find that that dawn begins with the labours of the elder Scalmer
at the Paris Library . To this murky and protracted dawn will succeed a brilliant day of scientific certainty , and the mists will roll away from the smiling landscape , while in the gradual improvement of tins sociological science we shall find some relief for our social evils .
The various spurious fabrications with which the middle age was so good as to oblige the world lay scattered over Europe , and the poisonous representations they contained gave a fatal direction to all study , precipitating research into a slough of despond , where it wallowed in a condition of utter and absolute imbecility . In speaking of the labours of Joseph Scaligcr on behalf of ancient chronology , Bunsen
I intend in due course to draw more special attention to M . Mariette ' s discoveries , and to the readings of Dr . Brugsch . t Essai sur rinegalite dos Paces Humaincs . Quatre tomes . Paris , 1853—1855 .
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Voices Eeom Dead Nations. By Kenneth R. ...
bull of Cambyses is to be found amongst them , and instead of a uniform Apis-ship of twenty-five years , we find that it was quite arbitrary , varying from two or three ' years to twenty or thirty , according to the life of the bull . *
Thus the Apis cycle comes to an end , and with it the deceitful light that misled critics to the swamp of cyclical arrangements . Nothing is more fortunate for students of archaeology than to be relieved of the dim presence of this ignus fatuus . The school of
Dupuis , Higgms , Barker , Bryant , and others , and the unfortunate followers of their mistaken theories , melt away into thin air , and the melancholy history of human error is augmented by another signal example of the aberrations under which the mind of man is doomed to suffer .
Erom such a chaos of rude , undigested materials , however , was destined to proceed one of the most brilliant departments of archaeological study ; the oldest and the most important investigations connected with the history of the Old World have been the results of these early attempts to make up for the time which the Greeks had lost in endeavouring , upon the false system of metaphysical inquiry ,
to attain a knowledge rather of the primitive origin of things , than of their vital importance , in that social philosophy which has been scientifically reduced into Sociology . M . de Grobineau , in his admirable " Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races , " f has pointed out that it has been for modern times to recognise the mortality not only of individuals , but of arts , of sciences , and of
nations ; and this very mortality it is that keeps the world young and fresh ; and in the law that all must die , we may again observe the goodness of the Creator , who provides against an eternity of despotism , by imbuing it with necessary mortality , and the centuries , continually repeating and reviving the processes of sociological development , remain ever new , ever fresh , ever interesting to us .
We must now go on farther , and perceive how , in the early dawn of Egyptian discovery , the multitude of materials began to be sorted into parcels , and the value of these parcels rudely estimated , and w ^ e shall find that that dawn begins with the labours of the elder Scalmer
at the Paris Library . To this murky and protracted dawn will succeed a brilliant day of scientific certainty , and the mists will roll away from the smiling landscape , while in the gradual improvement of tins sociological science we shall find some relief for our social evils .
The various spurious fabrications with which the middle age was so good as to oblige the world lay scattered over Europe , and the poisonous representations they contained gave a fatal direction to all study , precipitating research into a slough of despond , where it wallowed in a condition of utter and absolute imbecility . In speaking of the labours of Joseph Scaligcr on behalf of ancient chronology , Bunsen
I intend in due course to draw more special attention to M . Mariette ' s discoveries , and to the readings of Dr . Brugsch . t Essai sur rinegalite dos Paces Humaincs . Quatre tomes . Paris , 1853—1855 .