PLACE IN UNIVERSAL

HISTORY:

AN HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION IN FIVE BOOKS.

BY

C. C. J. BARON BUNSEN, D.PH. D.C.L. & D.D.

TRANSLATED FROM THE CERMAN,

BY CHARLES H. COTTRELL, ESQ., M.A.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.

1860.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK V.

THE ORIGINES AND AGES OF THE WORLD.

PART I.

THE OUTLINES OF A METHOD OF EXAMINING THE ORIGINES

AND OF MEASURING THE AGES OF THE WORLD: WITH A

SPECIAL APPLICATION TO EGYPT.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

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I. General Introduction.-Problem and Method.-The Ori-

gines and Ages of the World -

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II. Preliminary Definition of the Connexion between Egyptian

Language and Mythology, and the corresponding Sys-

tems in Asia and Europe: with eight Theses

III. The further Development of these eight Theses

SECTION I.

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THE PRINCIPLE OF DEVELOPMENT IN LANGUAGE, AND THE POSSI-

BILITY OF DISCOVERING EVEN THE MOST REMOTE HISTORICAL

AFFINITY BETWEEN LANGUAGES BEYOND THE GRAMMATICAL FORMS.

A.

Outlines of a Method of restoring the Genealogy of Mankind

by a philosophical and historical Comparison of Languages

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B.

Deductions from the preceding Remarks as to the Method and

Import of the historical Analysis of the Egyptian Language

C.

Outlines of a Philosophical Method of determining approxi-

mately the Age of the Primitive World by means of Lan-

guage, with especial reference to Egypt

D.

Philosophical Definition of Chinese, Tibetan, and Khamism,

Semism and Finnism, and lastly of Arism

E.

Historical and Astronomical Checks for the Age of the Human

Race

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Application of these Assumptions to the Egyptian Epochs

G.

Limits of the Duration of Egyptian Epochs prior to Menes,

according to Egyptian Monuments, Records, and Traditions

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SECTION II.

OUTLINES OF A METHOD FOR FINDING THE PLACE OF EGYPT IN

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION.

A.

The peculiar Difficulties of Mythological Research

B.

The Philosophical Elements of Mythological Formation, espe-

cially those of the Theogony and Kosmogony of the Ancients

C.

The different Theological and Philosophical Conceptions of

Mythology

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D.

The Fact of the Asiatic Origin of the Egyptian as well as the

Hellenic Language, and of the Germs of Mythology

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E.

Import and Connexion between the Kosmogonical, the Astral,

and the Psychical Myths

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