Man having rebelled against Heaven, the system of the
universe was totally disordered. The sun was eclipsed, the planets
altered their course, and the grand harmony of nature was disturbed."
A learned Frenchman, M. Terrien de la Couperie, member of the Asiatic
Society of Paris, has just published a work (1880) in which he
demonstrates the astonishing fact that the Chinese language is clearly
related to the Chaldean, and that both the Chinese characters and the
cuneiform alphabet are degenerate descendants of an original
hieroglyphical alphabet. The same signs exist for many words, while
numerous words are very much alike. M. de la Couperie gives a table of
some of these similarities, from which I quote as follows:
+------------+----------+----------+
| English. | Chinese. | Chaldee. |
+------------+----------+----------+
| To shine | Mut | Mul. |
+------------+----------+----------+
| To die | Mut | Mit. |
+------------+----------+----------+
| Book | King | Kin.
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