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consequently one person; — as existing and pleted in this one; or only in one human pair。

The biblical account by no means justifies us in imagining a people; and an historical condition of

such people; existing in that primitive form; still less does it warrant us in attributing to them the

possession of a perfectly developed knowledge of God and Nature。 “Nature;” so the fiction runs;

“like a clear mirror of Gods creation; had originally lain revealed and transparent to the

unclouded eye of man。” 'Fr。 von Schlegel; Philosophy of History p。 91; Bohns Standard

Library。'

Divine Truth is imagined to have been equally manifest。 It is even hinted; though left in some

degree of obscurity; that in this primary condition men were in possession of an indefinitely

extended and already expanded body of religious truths immediately revealed by God。 This theory

affirms that all religions had their historical mencement in this primitive knowledge; and that

they polluted and obscured the original Truth by the monstrous creations of error and depravity;

though in all the mythologies invented by Error; traces of that origin and of those primitive true

dogmas are supposed to be present and cognisable。 An important interest; therefore accrues to

the investigation of the history of ancient peoples; that; viz。; of the endeavour to trace their annals

up to the point where such fragments of the primary revelation are to be met with in greater purity

than lower down。

§ 66

We have to thank this interest for many valuable discoveries in Oriental literature; and for a renewed study of

treasures previously known; in the department of ancient Asiatic Culture; Mythology; Religions; and History。

In Catholic countries; where a refined literary taste prevails; Governments have yielded to the requirements of

speculative inquiry; and have felt the necessity of allying themselves with learning and philosophy。 Eloquently

and impressively has the Abbé Lamennais reckoned it among the criteria of the true religion; that it must be

the universal — that is; catholic — and the oldest in date; and the Congregation has laboured zealously and

diligently in France towards rendering such assertions no longer mere pulpit tirades and authoritative dicta;

such as were deemed sufficient formerly。 The religion of Buddha — a god man — which has prevailed to such

an enormous extent; has especially attracted attention。 The Indian Tim?rtis; as also the Chinese abstraction of

the Trinity; has furnished clearer evidence in point of subject matter。 The savants; M。 Abel Remusat and M。

Saint Martin; on the one hand; have undertaken the most meritorious investigations in the Chinese literature;

with a view to make this also a base of operations for researches in the Mongolian and; if such were possible;

in the Tibetan; on the other hand; Baron von Eckstein; in his way (i。e。; adopting from Germany superficial

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