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in the scale of huihan attainment as when Hanno ' s brave sailors trembled at the mountain fires 2 , 500 years ago ! There may be other peculiarities in the nature of man , besides his powers of teaching , which distinguish him from the brute ; but here , for the present , our inquiries must close . There is , however , in
certain tribes of animals a mysterious endowment , far more wonderful than instinct , and which appears to supply them with a kind of knowledge of which man certainly does not partake , and which , therefore , is of the nature of a special characteristic of the brute . We refer to the knowledge which guides certain annual migrations . To this we propose to devote our concluding chapter . ( To be continued . )
Notes On Antiquarian Research.
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH .
( Continued from page 283 . ) CHAPTER II , ON BELLS . " Wake me to-nigM , my mother dear , That I may hear The Christmas bells so soft and clear . "—Keble .
The hell is a subject , whatever ultra-utilitarians may say to the contrary , not only exceedingly interesting , hut distinctly national . "We are , as Englishmen , lovers of noise , and noisy harmony . As babes , we rejoiced in big buzzing tops , rattles , pipes , musical boxes , harmonical glasses , pop-guns , and drums ; and as youths , we frequented the old church belfry , with its quaint " rules and articles of the ringers , " and tolled , chimed , and rang . We have now given up
ringing , although we must plead guilty to having assisted in tolling the year 1854 out , and ringing this new year in , yet we take no less an interest hi the bell , and the mournful or joyous melody created by its various interchanges , which fill the whole atmosphere with eternally widening waves of gentle sound . We feel that we could give play to our fancy , but we remember that antiquaries are men of fact , and pledged by their very profession to be , if not somewhat dry , yet prosy .
Bells of a small size are undoubtedly of ancient origin , for they hung in the days of Moses upon the border of the blue robe of the High Priest . They were known moreover to the roving Arab tribes , and the Persians fastened them round the foreheads of their war horses . These bells were , as we remarked , small : and even in the
times of the Greeks and Romans , when they were used to mark the hours of bathing and of prayer , to give notice that the watchman was making his nightly rounds , or the sentinel standing at his appointed post , to clear the road of the condemned criminal , or to prepare the way for the triumphal car of the laurel-crowned general , there h little reason to believe they were of any great size .
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in the scale of huihan attainment as when Hanno ' s brave sailors trembled at the mountain fires 2 , 500 years ago ! There may be other peculiarities in the nature of man , besides his powers of teaching , which distinguish him from the brute ; but here , for the present , our inquiries must close . There is , however , in
certain tribes of animals a mysterious endowment , far more wonderful than instinct , and which appears to supply them with a kind of knowledge of which man certainly does not partake , and which , therefore , is of the nature of a special characteristic of the brute . We refer to the knowledge which guides certain annual migrations . To this we propose to devote our concluding chapter . ( To be continued . )
Notes On Antiquarian Research.
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH .
( Continued from page 283 . ) CHAPTER II , ON BELLS . " Wake me to-nigM , my mother dear , That I may hear The Christmas bells so soft and clear . "—Keble .
The hell is a subject , whatever ultra-utilitarians may say to the contrary , not only exceedingly interesting , hut distinctly national . "We are , as Englishmen , lovers of noise , and noisy harmony . As babes , we rejoiced in big buzzing tops , rattles , pipes , musical boxes , harmonical glasses , pop-guns , and drums ; and as youths , we frequented the old church belfry , with its quaint " rules and articles of the ringers , " and tolled , chimed , and rang . We have now given up
ringing , although we must plead guilty to having assisted in tolling the year 1854 out , and ringing this new year in , yet we take no less an interest hi the bell , and the mournful or joyous melody created by its various interchanges , which fill the whole atmosphere with eternally widening waves of gentle sound . We feel that we could give play to our fancy , but we remember that antiquaries are men of fact , and pledged by their very profession to be , if not somewhat dry , yet prosy .
Bells of a small size are undoubtedly of ancient origin , for they hung in the days of Moses upon the border of the blue robe of the High Priest . They were known moreover to the roving Arab tribes , and the Persians fastened them round the foreheads of their war horses . These bells were , as we remarked , small : and even in the
times of the Greeks and Romans , when they were used to mark the hours of bathing and of prayer , to give notice that the watchman was making his nightly rounds , or the sentinel standing at his appointed post , to clear the road of the condemned criminal , or to prepare the way for the triumphal car of the laurel-crowned general , there h little reason to believe they were of any great size .