ments of Jacob with Laban's flock
furnish a curious instance of attempts to induce variation.]

[Footnote 118: See for evidence of these views early notices in Genesis,
and Lenormant and Osburne on Egyptian Monuments and History.]

[Footnote 119: There is no good reason to believe the flint implements
mentioned by Delanouee and others, as found on the banks of the Nile, to
be older than the historic period.]

[Footnote 120: Wilson, "Prehistoric Man," 2d edition, p. 68.]

[Footnote 121: Southall has accumulated a great number of these facts in
his book on the antiquity of man.]

[Footnote 122: Professor Issel, quoted in _Popular Science Monthly_.]

[Footnote 123: Wilson has remarked the striking similarity of the
pottery of these people to American fictile wares. This similarity
applies also to the early Cyprian art.]

[Footnote 124: I agree with Gladstone's conclusions as to the date and
country of Homer.]

[Footnote 125: I suggested these terms in my lectures published under
the title "Nature and the Bible," 1875.]

[Footnote 126: Since these words were written I have read the remarkable
book of Edkins on the Chinese language, which supplies much additional
information.]

[Footnote 127: Donaldson has pointed out (British Association
Proceedings, 1851) links of connection between the Slavonian or
Sarmatian tongues and the Semitic languages, which in like manner
indicate the primitive union of the two great branches of languages.]

[Footnote 128: "Man and his Migrations." See also "Descriptive
Ethnology," where the Semitic affinities are very strongly brought out.]

[Footnote 129: I can scarcely except such terms as "Japetic" and
"Japetidae," for Iapetus can hardly be any thing else than a traditional
name borrowed from Semitic ethnology, or handed down from the Japhetic
progenitors of the Greeks.]

[Footnote 130: See art. "Philology," Encyc. Brit.]

[Footnote 131: Grammatical structure is no doubt more permanent than
vocabulary, yet we find great changes in the latter, both in tracing
cognate languages from one region to another, and from period to period.
The Indo-Germanic languages in Europe furnish enough of familiar
instances.]

[Footnote 132: It is fair, however, to observe that the Bible refers the
first great divergence of language to a divine intervention at the Tower
of Babel. The precise nature of this we do not know; but it would tend
to diminish the time required.]

[Footnote 133: Lecture