CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Origin of Man.

Darwin's Theory respecting the Origin of Man.-Rejected

by Socrates.-Professor Huxley's Theory confirmed by an

Hungarian Relic and an Irish Legend.-Canning's view

of the subject.-Are Live Frogs ever found in Coal ?—The

Monboddo Theory very ancient.-The Value of Old Bones

at the British Museum.-Signs of the Missing Link

between Pithecus and Homo.-Burmese Ethics.-Diffe-

rences between Professors Owen and Huxley.-Speech of

the Neanderthal Skull.-Genealogy of Man.-Definition

of Man by Teufelsdröck-Pascal-Byron and Shak-

speare. pp. 1-61.

CHAPTER II.

Man as a Pyrrhonist.

Bishop Colenso and the English Pyrrhonists.-Definition of

Pyrrhonism.-Ancient Ancestry of the Welsh, the French,

and the Egyptians.-Bunsen on the Nile Pottery.-The

Essays and Reviews.-Ode on the Seven Sages of Eng-

land.-Age of the Patriarch Joseph.-The old Countess

of Desmond.-Four Generations of Old Parrs-Pyr-

rhonism of the French Historians, Victor Hugo, Lamar-

tine, and Thiers, respecting the Battle of Waterloo.-

pp. 62-94.

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CHAPTER III.

Man as a Necromancer.

Black and White," as taught by the Jesuits and the Chinese.

-The way by which Christianity is said to have been

brought to England.-Joseph of Arimathea.-Irish

History.-Prophecy respecting the Termination of the

Saxon Rule.-The Medieval Costume of the Irish.-Their

Mode of Fasting.-Cardinal Wiseman's Sermon in praise

of Theodosia's Bones.-Necromancy in Spain.-History

of St. Philomène.-Relics at Rome.-Apologue of the

Cat and the Mice.-Beware of Crocodiles.—pp. 94-140.

CHAPTER IV.

Man as an Allegorist.

Allegorical Mode of Instruction common amongst Jews and
Christians. The claims of the Church of Rome shown
from Genesis i.-The Emperor Titus.-St. Augustine.—
Savonarola and the Medieval Preachers fond of Allegory.-
Smoking condemned by the Russian Church.-Lord
Eldon discovers the East India Company in the Apoca-
lypse. The Urim and Thummim.-The Whale's Speech
to Moses.-Anecdoteana.-The Number of the Beast.-
The Original of "This is the House that Jack built."—Mr.
Maskell on the intellectual power of the Clergy.-Bishop
Colenso. Is he a Myth ?-His Arguments against the
Historical Character of the Pentateuch explained.-pp.
140-195.

CHAPTER V.

Man as an Orator.

Lord Brougham on Oratory.-Sesquipedalian Words in the

German and N. W. Indian Languages.-The power of

Buncombe. Specimens of American Oratory in the

Senate House; from the Stump; before a Jury; and in

the Pulpit.-Distinguished American Poets.-Mr. "Tram-

way" Train's Opinion of England.-Ode in honour of the

Princess of Wales, by the Poet Laureate of Yankeedom.-

Curiosity of American Travellers.-Remarkable Instances

of Prolificness.-A Hint to Bishop Colenso. pp. 195

-229.

CHAPTER VI.

Homo Barbatus.

Early Notice of Beards in Scripture.-Insult to the Ambassa-
dors of King David.-Socrates quotes Homer in favour
of the Beard. Tertullian denounces the Roman Dandies

for Shaving.-Bishop Serlo shaves Henry I. of France.--

Canons of the Church against Shaving.-The Wars

between England and France for 300 years traced to the

loss of a Beard.-Memorable Dispute at the Council of

Trent. A Bearded Bishop greater than Cæsar or

Napoleon.-Irish Girls and Egyptian Queens with Beards.

-The Three Great Organs of the World.-The cutting

Irony of Shakspeare.-Beards shown to be Natural,

Canonical, Scriptural, Healthy, and Useful.-Dawn of

Reform.-Amazement of our Children at the Folly of their

Ancestors. pp. 229-259.

CHAPTER VII.

The End of Man.

Tombology amongst the Egyptians.-"Sydney's Sister,

Pembroke's Mother" in Salisbury Cathedral.-Origin of

the "Venerable" Bede.-Curious Epitaph in Launcells

Churchyard. What a Woman should be.-Mrs. Jennings,

the Mother of Twenty-one children, at Wolstanson.-

General Tulley and his Ten Wives.-Martha Blewett at

Chelmsford with her Nine Husbands.-Wellingtonea.-

Importance of a Single Letter.-Various Epitaphs

respecting Departed Wives -Anecdote respecting two

Lawyers, Messrs. Catchem and Cheatem.-Lady O'Loo-

ney's Epitaph at Pewsey.-Descent of John Carnegie,

older than that of the Plantagenets or Montmorencies.-

Morale of the whole at Ipswich.-"See, then, thou

Warned be." pp. 259-296.

MAN;

OR,

THE OLD AND NEW PHILOSOPHY.

CHAPTER I.

The Origin of Man.

ONE of the most marvellous works which has charmed and instructed the present age is Darwin's " Origin of Species." There is something so naturally attractive in the very ancient ancestry chalked out for the human. race by that distinguished savant, that nothing less than the power of Babbage's Calculating Machine, we imagine, could estimate the time which must have been consumed, and the unlimited number of metempsychoses which must have taken place, before Nature could

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