Monde Primitif: Volume 8
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Adams#: Adams 60.1 v.8 Title: Monde primitif : analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ...
Author: Court de Gébelin, Antoine
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Volume 8
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The first conqueror and the last ruined himself by his glory.
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Curious.
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Dighton Rock.
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This cabinet was indeed very humble.
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Orleans.
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Huzza! Court! May thine eternal virtue and wisdom come!
How beautiful! How sublime! How divine! In such enthusiasm!
May thy Kingdom come and thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven.
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Is the foregoing passage natural or revealed religion? Or both?
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Skeleton of the vast plan of the primitive world.
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Want! A principle anterior to all monuments.
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Bryant, Dupuis.
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Court! Is not thine enthusiasm too ardent?
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Probable enough.
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The Moderns deserve not such praise.
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All this is very true.
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Very sound.
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What!
True.
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True! But what then?
Very true, but what follows?
Perfectly true! But no new discovery.
Ah! there's the rest. We see not the end. We can foresee no end of the weakness, ignorance and corruption of mankind.
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What will London, Paris, Boston, New York, or Charleston care for this oracle? No more than for my philippics against paper money. Even John Taylors are despised.
Philosophy sound in substance but hitherto ineffectual.
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Dear Court! Oh! that you had lived to 1817. You would have seen the effects of the philosophy you here applaud; and the oblivion into which your Monde Primitif is fallen.
Liberty, equality and fraternity are not now words of fire as they once were. And the great and lovely ideas, alas, are unfashionable.
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So be it! Amen and Amen!
Et moi ausi.
Oh! that I could say as much!
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The beginning of the 19th Century has been de movais Augure.
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Court's plan was too vast for human life to execute.
Court died too soon to publish these dissertations.
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These dissertation might have been as valuable as all he has printed. As the projected researches of Sir W. Jones would probably have been more valuable than all his works.
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Will gout, [?], fevers and old age be all cured?
O grief! Where is thy solace?
Fine fancies!
Preachers of order and public felicity are laudable and useful when they understand themselves. But the French philosophers, and even Court himself, did not.
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Execrable intolerance of Louis XIV and XV.
But, Court, thy laurels and monuments are far more precious and durable than theirs.
A very just eulogium on himself.
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This apostrophe to his country is very affecting. But what would he say in 1817.
The age is not come.
The order is not arranged.
The new creatures are not yet born.
You must have lived many years after 1800 to celebrate such facts in your divine numbers.
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The Monde Primitif is no fairy castle. It is only to be regretted that life was too short to finish [what] was so gloriously begun.
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If Court's work is a system, it is as admirable as it is extensive. It does honour to human nature and has been useful to mankind. No man can read it without being richly rewarded for his time and pains. Bryant and Dupuis and Jones all illustrate and corroborate his theory.
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Oriental languages the daughter of the primitive. But what was that primitive?
What is the difference between Sabeans and Pantheists? Worshipers of the Το ∏αν? or Τα ∏αντος?
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Judah famous indeed.
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And how much the wiser am I for all this? How shall I know whether the Hebrews or the Greeks knew best?
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I believe it without doubting.
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how many Emirs?
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Curious monkery.
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Triple Crown of Gold.
Priests enough! More magnificent and richer than Solomon's.
Crassus no doubt was rich!
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A good answer to Voltaire and company.
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Voltaire.
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A consoling observation and very true one.
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The United States owe their existence to the same cause.
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The legitimates should think of this.
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Pretty questions.
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Fatal error.
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Napoleon or even Alexander might give us some idea of such wonders. So might Genghis.
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Such leagues produced Alexander, Genghis, Charles XII, Frederick, Napoleon, besides Charlemagne and Oliver Cromwell. Washington []ly enjoyed his glory with moderation.
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O Court! Apply thine admonition to thyself!
Poor Strabo!
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A great question.
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Another great question.
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Page 561
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Number 7 remarked in nature, in history, mythology, and revelation.
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This prophecy was very easy for a man of sense to conceive.
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Of Charles V and XII, of Cromwell, of Frederic, of Napoleon.
All this, dear Court! denoted its destruction.
All this is tout simple.
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Exactly so of all conquerors! Napoleon as well as Rienzi.
All conquerors have been thus ignorant.
Precisely Napoleon.
Tyre.
Like Genghis.
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How came this recluse, Court, to be so profound a statesman?
In these circumstances, prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar was miracle.
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Charming as it is, this rhapsody, Court, is too fluent, too voluble. Without his armies his people would not have obeyed him. They would not have worked.
Napoleon did the same. So did Louis XIV and XV.
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The Magi were no better counselors than the French philosophers.
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A wise observation.
Impudences a sure prognostic of ruin in a young man.
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The hunting of Genghis, the Scotts, and the Virginians resemble this.
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A thorny problem.
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Ah! Systematiques! But are you, friend Court, wholly free from the spirit of system?
An American has lately seen this monument. I wish he had seen that of Berosus and Abydenus.
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Who was Belshazzar?
Who was Darius? Usher? Marsham?
Come, Mr. cold and tranquil, Court, let us see your system!
Q.E.D.
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A very just and important observation.
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Very true.
Shrewd and sly enough.
Very pious.
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Here is a discussion of the last importance! Read it without fear, favor, or affection, if you can.
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These are curious questions.
Let Bolingbroke, Voltaire, Frederick, and company answer these questions if they can, and call Dupuis to their aid, if they please.
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Who denies this?
An academy of forgers!
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What is a translation?
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How is this?
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Before, during and after the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the state of the world seems to have resembled that in the times of Julius Caesar and that of George III and Napoleon. Oh! that some Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah or Daniel might arise to tell us what is to come.
Who? Indeed!
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Symbolic and allegoric genius whose existence Gebelin [?] he first demonstrated.
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Always some reason.
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What relation to Court de Gebelin?
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Bryant
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I hope to see Bryant upon Troy.
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Nota
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Le Comte de Sarsfield, my worthy friend.
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Dupuis
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A merry fellow.
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Mr. Sewall and company.
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Page 57-59 on the Dighton Rock.
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Dighton Rock
P. 561
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Shield of Achilles P: 352
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Page 368 etc. Jeu des Tarots
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Jeu des Tarots Page 369 etc.
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Page 371 etc.
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P. 373 etc.
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P. 375 etc.
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P.377 etc.
P. 388.