This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...will be ultimately overthrown. The fiction of a race of giants, engaged in warfare with the gods, is so remote from all historical probability, that its true nature is at once seen; but it may be thought that there is something of an historical foundation for the very prevalent belief, that a race, of stature, strength ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...will be ultimately overthrown. The fiction of a race of giants, engaged in warfare with the gods, is so remote from all historical probability, that its true nature is at once seen; but it may be thought that there is something of an historical foundation for the very prevalent belief, that a race, of stature, strength and longevity far surpassing that of later degenerate days, has once occupied the earth, and even left on it the traces of its existence in its mighty works. We by no means deny the possibility that such a race may have existed, but analogy does not favour the supposition, and the direct evidence will be found to be fallacious. We discover among fossil remains, those of animals congenerous with such as now exist, far surpassing them in size, but seldom, if ever, identical with them in all other respects, except their size. Their species is different, and therefore analogy is against the conclusion that the human race has ever varied, except within the limits of existing varieties; varieties which include Patagonians and Esquimeaux. The supposed remains of gigantic human E bones, which afford to popular credulity an argument of their former existence, when examined, prove to be those of cetaceous animals, or elephants; the traditions which ascribe great works to them are only proofs how completely the remembrance of their real origin has been lost. Looking upward from the base of the Great Pyramid, we might suppose it the work of giants; but it is entered by passages, admitting with difficulty a man of the present size, and we find in the centre a sarcophagus about six feet long. The strength and stature of the men of past ages have been exaggerated, from the same cause as their happiness and their virtue, and each successive generation has re...
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