|
+------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
| The art of music | Hebrew | Jubal. |
+------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
| Metallurgy, and the use of | " | Tubal-cain. |
| iron | | |
+------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
| The syrinx | Greek | Pan. |
+------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
| The lyre | " | Hermes. |
+------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+
We cannot consider all these evidences of the vast antiquity of the
great inventions upon which our civilization mainly rests, including the
art of writing, which, as I have shown, dates back far beyond the
beginning of history; we cannot remember that the origin of all the
great food-plants, such as wheat, oats, barley, rye, and maize, is lost
in the remote past; and that all the domesticated animals, the horse,
the ass, the ox, the sheep, the goat, and the hog had been reduced to
subjection to man in ages long previous to written history, without
having the conclusion forced upon us irresistibly that beyond Egypt and
Greece, beyond Chaldea and China, there existed a mighty civilization,
of which these states were but the broken fragments.
Pages:
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651