What is truth? An inquiry concerning the antiquity and unity of the human race

Fossil bone near Natchez, 293; skele- | Indo-European languages, 216.
ton near New Orleans, 295; skele-
ton on Florida coast, 300.

Infidel rejoicing, 63.
Inflectional languages, 223.

Fossils in valley of the Somme, 301; Institutes of Menu. 105.

not contemporaneous, 304.
Fuh-hi, 122.

Garden of Eden, tradition of, 243.
Gaubil, 119.
Gayatri, 111.

Genesis consistent with geology, 20;
tenth chapter of, 145.
Geology, argument from, 286.
Greek and Roman chronology, 85.
Greek mind practical, 51, 86.

Irej, 218, 284.

Irish, changes in features of, 196.
Iyotisha, 115.

Jablonski on traditions, 238.
Jackson's dates, 42; on the word
yomim, 97.

Japheth and his family, 147.
Javan and his family, 119.

Jesuit missionaries in China, 118.
Jews, change in features of, 197.

Greek writers on Egypt, 50; on Joktan, 147.
mythology, 266.

Godron on difference in races, 184.

Gods, kings of Egypt, 56.

Gomer, 148.

Gutzlaff, 121.

Hale's dates, 42.

Jones, Sir W., 104, 213.

Josephus, the Greek Livy, 77;
against Apion, 77; citation of Mane-
tho, 78.

Kali-Yug, 46.

Keller on Swiss lake remains, 322.

Ham, early name of Egypt, 159; curse Khamism, 228.

of, 174; his family, 149.

Hamitic languages, 217, 228.
Havilah, 150.

Hebrides, growth of peat in, 313.
Hebrew once thought the original
language, 209.
Hercules, 53.

Herodotus, 51, 53, 71; date of Trojan
war, 88.

Hesperides, garden of, 243.

Hieroglyphics, key to, 49.

Hindus, character of, 107; compared

with Grecks, 109.

Kittim, 149.

Kjokken-modding. 320.

Lake settlements in Switzerland, 320.
Language, argument from, 209.
Languages, classification of, 215; Ar-
yan, 215; Semitic, 216; Hamitic, 217;
Turanian, 218; monosyllabic, 222;
agglutinative, 222; inflectional, 223;
confusion of, 224; have much in com-
mon, 226; approximate as better
known, 227; rapid changes in, 227.
La Peyrère, 170.

Hindu traditions of creation, 240; of Latham, 96, 198.

the flood, 254.

Historic times in Egypt, 67.

History, argument from, 48.

Legge's Chinese classics, 120; on the
Chinese year, 127, 132.

Lehabim, 160.

Hitchcock on date of creation, 20; Lenormant on date of Menes, 71; on

on growth of peat, 312.

Hoang-ti, 122.

Hybrids, fertile and infertile, 187.
Hyksos, 79.

Inachus, 89.

Indian aborigines, 163.

prehistoric archæology, 22.

Lepsius, 66, 77: identifies one hun-

dred and ten kings of Egypt, 79.
Letronne, 64.

Lewis on Chaldean antiquities, 99.
Lists of Manetho, 69.

Literary remains of Egypt, 50.

Makrizi, on changes in the Nile val- Myths founded on fact, 262; modern

ley, 291.

Manes, kings of Egypt, 56.
Manetho, 54; his history, 68; his
lists of dynasties, 69; his authorities
unknown, 71; his lists corrupt, 71;
different versions of, 72; internal
evidence against them, 72; contra-
dicted by the old chronicle, 73; by
Eratosthenes, 74; by Josephus, 77;
by the monuments, 79.
Mantchus, features of, changed, 198.
Manu, legend of, 255.

Manuscripts of the Septuagint, 32.
Mariette, on the dynasties, 82.
Measures of time among Chaldeans,

95.

Medes, 149.

Median kings, 98.
Megasthenes, 45.

Menes, mythological, 52; first king
of Egypt, 67; date of, 70, 71.
Meshech, 149.

Methuselah's age, 34.
Metonic cycle, 129.

Mexican tradition of the flood, 246.
Milman's version of Manu, 255.
Mississippi, delta of, 297.

examples of, 264; of Mount Olym-
pus, 267; of the Omphalus, 268; of
the Cynocephali, 269; of creation,
275; of the fall, 276; of the antedi-
luvian generations, 277; of the flood,
279; of Noah, 279; of the dovę, 282;
of the Cabiri, 283; of the ark, 281.

Naphtuhim, 159.

Natchez, fossil near, 293.
Nau (or Nao) the great, 137.
New Orleans, skeleton, 295.
Nile, flowing with honey, 72; bor-
ings in the valley, 287; annual in-
crease of sediment, 289; changes in
the bed of, 291.
Nimrod, 146, 150.
Nineveh, 146, 150.

Noah and his family, 146; myths of,

279.

Nott and Gliddon's types 173; history
of man, 173.

Oa. Oanes, 283.

Ogyges, deluge of, 247.

Old Chronicle, 53, 59, 73.
Olympiad, the first, date of, 86.

Mizraim, 150; early name of Egypt, Omphalos, myth of, 268.

159.
Monboddo's

speculations on lan-

guage, 211.
Monosyllabic languages, 222.
Months, reckoned as years, 58.
Monuments, against Manetho, 79.
Monumental figures of animals, 200.
Monumental records of Egypt, 49.
Moral characteristics of men, 207.
Moral relations of men, 207.

Orpheus, 51.

Osborn on contemporaneous dynas-
ties, 82; on Egyptian language, 161.
Owen on difference in races, 185; on
changes in features of the Jews, 197.

Palmer's chronicles. 57.
Pandora, myth of, 244.

Pankou, 121; same as Hindu Manu,

121.

Pandorus, 55.
Papyrus rolls, 49.
Parian marble, 88.
Pathrusim, 159.

Pauthier's History of China, 120;

view of Chinese chronology, 124.
Peat in Somme valley, 309; its rate of
growth, 312.

Peruvian tradition of the flood, 246.
Petavius's dates, 42.
Phut, 151.

Physiology, argument from, 169.
Plurality of race, advocates of, 170.

Plutarch, 51.

Polydorus, 96.

Polyhistor, 92, 94.

Pomponius Mela, 53.
Poole's dates, 42.

Portuguese in India, 197.

Prehistoric archæology, 22; times in
Egypt, 52; period, how reckoned, 57;
races, 158.

Professor, in University of Breslau,
63.

Prometheus, legend of, 239.

Sabtah, 150.

Sabtechah, 150.

Sacred words of the Hindus, 111.
Samaritan version of the Penta-
teuch, 32.

Sanskrit, discovery of, 103, 210; con-
tains no history, 106; estimate of its
value, 106; scholars, 213; key to
classification of languages, 214.
Saros, a measure of time, 95, 99.
Satya Yuga, 28.

Schlegel's work on Sanskrit, 214.

Scripture chronology, 31; language

not always literal, 153.

Scyths, migrations of, 156,
Seasons in Egypt, 58.
Seba, 150.
Sebennytus, 68.
Selim, 284.

Semitic languages, 216.
Septuagint version, 32.
Sexagenary cycle in China, 122, 126,
129.

Shem and his family, 146.
Shepherd kings in Egypt, 79.

Protestant missionaries in China, 120. Shishak, 80.
Ptolemy Physcon, 46.

Ptolemy's canon, 40.
Puranas, 104.

Quatrefages on La Peyrère, 171; on
slavery, 173.

Quietists in geology, 311.

Raamah, 150.

Races of men, 183.

Ramayana, 105.

Rawlinson, Sir H., 156.

Reade on the negro, 198.

Riphath, Riphæan mountains, 148.
Rock temples of India, 163.
Rodier's chronology, 27, 71.
Rogers on new discoveries in geolo-
gy, 22; on contemporaneousness of
fossils, 305, 307, 318.

Rome, time of its foundation uncer-
tain, 89; three theories, 89.
Rosetta stone, 49.
Rousseau, 172.

Shu-king, 130; ascribed to Confucius,

137; how mutilated, 139; burning of,
139; how recovered, 140.

Simeto, wearing of the bed of, 313.
Skeleton, near New Orleans, 295.
Smith, Philip, date of destruction of
temple, 41; on the Sarus, 99.
Smyth's discussion with Agassiz,
172; on primitive traditions, 236.
Somme valley, 301; history of chan-
ges in, 308.

Species, unity of, 183.

Stobart's tablets, 65.

Stewart, Dugald, 210.

Syncellus, 53, 68, 74, 77, 78.

Tablet of Abydos, 80.
Tablets, Egyptian, 65.

Tahitian tradition of creation, 240.
Tarshish, 149.

Temple, date of, 36, 38.

Temptation and fall, tradition of,
244; myth of, 276.

Tentyris, 160.

Theology, opposed to plurality, 206.
Thompson, J. P., 65.

Tiras, 149.

Togarmah, 148.

Tradition, argument from, 235.
Traditions of primitive times, 236;
of one god, 238; of the creation, 203;
of Eden, 243; of the fall, 244; of the
Sabbath, 245; of the flood, 246.
Treta-Yuga, 28.

Trevor, Canon, on the dynasties, 79.
Trojan war mythical, 87; date of, 88.
Troy, siege o ̊, 88.

Troyon on Swiss lake remains, 324.
Tubal, 149.

Turanian language, 215.

Uniformitarians, 311.

Upangas, 105.

Upavedas, 105.

Usher's dates, 42.

Uz, 147.

Vedas, 104; origin of date of, 112;

teach one God, 239.

Vedangas, 105.

Versions of the Pentateuch, 32.
Voltaire, 172.

Weeks, time divided into, 245; days
of, 245.

Whitney on date of the Vedas, 113;
on changes in races, 196; on classifi-
cation of languages, 221; on unity of
languages, 227, 234.

Wilkinson on lunar years, 59.
Williams on Chinese chronology,

121, 126; on the Shu-king, 137.
Wilson on the Somme valley, 316.

Xisuthrus, 94, 250.

Years in Egypt, lunar, 58; in China,
126, 127.

Yu the Great, 136.

Zodiac of Denderah, 61.

Zodiacs, of Greek origin, 65.

APPENDIX.

A. Chronology of Bunsen, 327.
B. Chronology of Boeckh, 348.
C. Chronology of Rodier, 349.

D. Manetho, 357.

E. Manetho's Lists, 359.

F. The Old Chronicle, 377.

G. Eratosthenes and Apollodorus, 378.

H. Manetho, according to Josephus, 383.

I. Chinese Astronomy, 391.

J. Superficial Character of Diversities between Races, 393.
K. Variations in Species among Domestic Animals, 401.

L. Visit of Dionusos to India, 412.

M. Chinese Theology, 413.

N. The Celts in Europe, 417.

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