The worthies who have been taken for models or guides in this arduous undertaking, are Solomon, Moses, Job, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Plato, Niebuhr, Humboldt, Malcolm, Gebelin, D’Olivet, Bryant, Adelung, Drummond, Pritchard, Champollion, Klaproth, Jones, Wilford, Akbar, Price, Bailly, Russell, Beattie, Herder, Carli, Barton &c. They shall speak for themselves, in quotations of their own words, instead of elaborate reflexions. From God comes wisdom, knowledge and understanding—SOLOMON Prov. 2. v. 6. Those who will seek early wisdom will find her—SOL. Pr. 8. v. 17. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not—SOL. Pr. 8. v. 33. ZE this is. SFR book. THU symbol. LDTH progeny. ADM mankind. BIUM in manifestation. BRA in realization. ALEIM angels. ADM mankind. BDMUTH in identic passage. ALEIM angels. OSHE worked. ATHU such symbol.—MOSES. _Genesis ch, 5. v. 1._ Genuine mosaic words, and genuine translation word for word. When I laid the foundations of the earth ... the morning stars sung together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.—SPEECH OF GOD HIMSELF IN JOB ch. 38., _Vulgar translation: the original is still more striking_. The Hebrew philosophy divided the world in two hemispheres, the upper was SHMIM or _Shamaim_, the Heavens—the lower was SHEOL; but SHEOL-TAHTITH or inferior, was the place of bad souls and Rephaim. (The true SHEOL was America, or the southern hemisphere). The Jesuit Sanetius thought that Job had spoken of America.—PETERS, _Dissertation on Job_. It is very possible for modern learning to understand better the books of Moses, Orpheus, and those of all ancient nations, than the Egyptian, Greek and Roman commentators: because the intellectual knowledge of languages is improving; and those ancient writers have, by their genius, approximated to us, while removed from the blindness of their ages.—GEBELIN, _Primitive World_. The letter kills, but the spirit gives life.—ST. PAUL _Corinth._ II. ch. 3. v. 6. We use great plainness of speech, and not as MOSES who put a veil before his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished.—_Cor. II. 3. v. 12, 13._—and even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart, nevertheless when it shall please the Lord, this veil shall be taken away.—_Cor. II. 3. v. 15, 16._ To have a right apprehension of words or names, is a good step to the knowledge of things.—PLATO _in Cratylo_. The confusion of words is the cause of all disputes and sects.—D’ISRAELI. The obscure ages demand bold hypotheses or total neglect, contradictions are inseparable from days of tradition.—There exist no instance of a people really savage having spontaneously advanced to civilization. Savage men are degenerated or imperfect creatures.... Words and even few are the rules of analogies in nations.—NIEBUHR, _Roman History, Vol. I._