host, for men of letters could not agree altogether. Some considered the stone older, and others of less age; but all united on one point, that both temples at Denderah must have stood before the great deluge, and even the creation. A certain professor of the University of Breslau edited, for instance, a pamphlet, entitled Invincible Proof that our Earth is at least ten times older than taught by the Bible.' More than fifty publications, of a similar purport, have treated of the temples of Denderah. Besides these, a host of newspaper writers trumpeted the great discovery of the nineteenth century, in innumerable sheets and periodicals all over Europe.

"The stone of Denderah was kept, at this time, in the National Library at Paris, and was visited by hundreds of thousands of the curious, all anxious to see the antediluvian monument. But King Charles X. was compelled, at last, to place it in a dark chamber, because the crowd became too large and unruly. This naturally caused a great deal of grumbling, because the king and priesthood had combined, as they said, to keep the people from becoming enlightened.

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"This was a time of woe for a small band of Christians, and of great rejoicing for the infidels of all countries. You credulous-fools,' railed they, don't you see how you have been imposed upon by the wily priesthood, with the chronology of your "Word of God"? There was never a deluge, nor a creation, at least not at the period stated by the Bible. Now you can see that the Old and New Testaments contain, from beginning to end, a series

ing it is from the pen of a learned writer, who had a personal knowledge of some of the things of which he speaks, and was familiar with the whole subject:

"Some time about the year 1798, General Bonaparte, with his host of French soldiery and a number of literary men, entered the small town of Denderah, in Central Egypt, and found there a large and small temple, in a good state of preservation, both of which were decorated with images of deities and hieroglyphics. The literary men copied the drawings as well as their time would permit, but they secured the whole ceiling of the smaller, flat temple, by cutting out the stone slab by means of a saw. They were also fortunate enough in getting the old, black, and smoky stone-which, by the way, had the length and breadth of the ceiling of a middle-sized room

safe to Paris. Arrived here, the literati went to work in deciphering the inscriptions and figures of both temples. And what did they make of them?

"Why, they thought, from the inscriptions, that both temples must be at least 17,000 years old, and tried to prove this by their astronomical calculations in short, made it mathematically sure. Volume after volume was then published on this subject. But in this case, as in many others, the reckoning had been made without their

high date for the human occupancy of the Nile valley. Since these pages were written, a gentleman urged it to prove to me the incorrectness of the Mosaic chronology. For this reason I refer to it in this place.

host, for men of letters could not agree altogether. Some considered the stone older, and others of less age; but all united on one point, that both temples at Denderah must have stood before the great deluge, and even the creation. A certain professor of the University of Breslau edited, - for instance, a pamphlet, entitled 'Invincible Proof that our Earth is at least ten times older than taught by the Bible.' More than fifty publications, of a similar purport, have treated of the temples of Denderah. Besides these, a host of newspaper writers trumpeted the great discovery of the nineteenth century, in innumerable sheets and periodicals all over Europe.

"The stone of Denderah was kept, at this time, in the National Library at Paris, and was visited by hundreds of thousands of the curious, all anxious to see the antediluvian monument. But King Charles X. was compelled, at last, to place it in a dark chamber, because the crowd became too large and unruly. This naturally caused a great deal of grumbling, because the king and priesthood had combined, as they said, to keep the people from becoming enlightened.

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"This was a time of woe for a small band of Christians, and of great rejoicing for the infidels of all countries. You credulous-fools,' railed they, 'don't you see how you have been imposed upon by the wily priesthood, with the chronology of your "Word of God"? There was never a deluge, nor a creation, at least not at the period stated by the Bible. Now you can see that the Old and New Testaments contain, from beginning to end, a series

ing it is from the pen of a learned writer, who had a personal knowledge of some of the things of which he speaks, and was familiar with the whole subject:

"Some time about the year 1798, General Bonaparte, with his host of French soldiery and a number of literary men, entered the small town of Denderah, in Central Egypt, and found there a large and small temple, in a good state of preservation, both of which were decorated with images of deities and hieroglyphics. The literary men copied the drawings as well as their time would permit, but they secured the whole ceiling of the smaller, flat temple, by cutting out the stone slab by means of a saw. They were also fortunate enough in getting the old, black, and smoky stone-which, by the way, had the length and breadth of the ceiling of a middle-sized room

safe to Paris. Arrived here, the literati went to work in deciphering the inscriptions and figures of both temples. And what did they make of them?

"Why, they thought, from the inscriptions, that both temples must be at least 17,000 years old, and tried to prove this by their astronomical calculations in short, made it mathematically sure. Volume after volume was then published on this subject. But in this case, as in many others, the reckoning had been made without their

high date for the human occupancy of the Nile valley. Since these pages were written, a gentleman urged it to prove to me

the incorrectness of the Mosaic chronology. For this reason I refer to it in this place.

host, for men of letters could not agree altogether. Some considered the stone older, and others of less age; but all united on one point, that both temples at Denderah must have stood before the great deluge, and even the creation. A certain professor of the University of Breslau edited, · for instance, a pamphlet, entitled Invincible Proof that our Earth is at least ten times older than taught by the Bible.' More than fifty publications, of a similar purport, have treated of the temples of Denderah. Besides these, a host of newspaper writers trumpeted the great discovery of the nineteenth century, in innumerable sheets and periodicals all over Europe.

"The stone of Denderah was kept, at this time, in the National Library at Paris, and was visited by hundreds of thousands of the curious, all anxious to see the antediluvian monument. But King Charles X. was compelled, at last, to place it in a dark chamber, because the crowd became too large and unruly. This naturally caused a great deal of grumbling, because the king and priesthood had combined, as they said, to keep the people from becoming enlightened.

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"This was a time of woe for a small band of Christians, and of great rejoicing for the infidels of all countries. You credulous-fools,' railed they, don't you see how you have been imposed upon by the wily priesthood, with the chronology of your "Word of God"? There was never a deluge, nor a creation, at least not at the period stated by the Bible. Now you can see that the Old and New Testaments contain, from beginning to end, a series