Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    record of Professors without Hebraism, during the years 1G03-’11. Fifty years later, Walton redeems the shame of Oxford; and yet, one hundred years later still, Kennicott himself chronicles — “ the reader will be pleased to observe, that as the study of the Hebrew language has only been reviving during the last one hundred years (209) to end which sentence logically, we ourselves consider that there could be no “revival ” where, in 1000, there was scarcely a leginning; and, ergo, that the Doctor’s attesta- tion must refer to incipient efforts, in his century commencing, to resuscitate the Hebrew tongue after twenty centuries of burial. 6th and present period, a. d. 1750 to 1853. Taking Eiclihorn as the grand point of departure, we find, after the lapse of a century, how, through the operations of that “rational method” of which he and Richard Simon were, among Christians, the first qualified exponents, the Ilebraical scholarship of our own generation (proud of its hundred champions) has truly kept pace, on the European conti- nent, with the universal progress of knowledge. Nevertheless, on every side, we still see and hear the crocodile whimper how “ nobody undertakes a new translation (into English) of Holy Scripture” commensurate with the imperious demands of all the sciences at present advancing — news of the onward steps made by each being actually transmitted through magnetic telegraphs (210) — and yet, withal, few men in America so blind as not to perceive that, even in evangelized England, such pecuniary superfluities as those said to have been realized through a “World’s Exhibition,” are expended (God alone knows how or why) upon anything, or everything, rather than in behalf of a conscientious revisal of our English BIBLE. G. R. G. ESSAY II. PALEOGRAPHIC EXCURSUS ON THE ART OF WRITING. The same imperious necessity that has constrained us to suppress the continuation of Part III., Essay I. {supra, p. 626), renders it obligatory to curtail our History of the “Art of Writing, from the earliest antiquity to the present day.” This subject, perhaps the most vital in any researches into the antiquity of the Hebrew Pentateuch, has never yet publicly received adequate attention from modern scholarship. With ourselves it has been a favorite pursuit ever since 1844; (211) nor, did space permit the insertion of what we had prepared in manuscript for the present volume, should we not have taken some pride in the presentation of a series of facts and arguments that would entirely justify every point set forth in the accompanying Tableau [infra, pp. 630, 031]. (209) 1st Dissert.; 1753; p. 307. (210) Rev. John Bachman, I). P.’s Doctrine of the Unity of the JTuman Dace; Charleston, S. C., 1850; p. 2SS — « And oven telegraphing to America, through the convenient wires of Mr. Gliddon, the yet unpublished dis- coveries of Lcpsius.” These discoveries have since been published, and much John Bachman knows about them! Morton’s refutations, in the Charleston Medical Journal, 1S50-’51, render it quite unnecessary for me to waste more ink upon the extinguished author of the above “ Doctrine.” — G. R.G. (211) Vide OurmoN, in Luke Burke’s Ethnological Journal, No. ix.; London, Feb. 1S49; pp. 400-416: — repub- lished in Otia jRgyptiaca ; London, Madden, 1849; pp. 99-115: —and, without text, but with some improve- ment of the “ Table,” in Hand-honk to the Panorama of the Nile; London, Madden, 1849; pp. 41-45; under the heading of “ Philology.” Of this pamphlet, rather more than 3000 copies have been distributed in the United States, from Maine to Louisiana, and, accompanied by my oral Lectures, have somewhat familiarized American auditors with themes but little known in Europe beyond collegiate precincts.