The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9)Various
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The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9)
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"Thus, as has been often said, revealed religion has no
greater foe than ignorance. Far from making it _her ally_,
as men who deny the testimony of all ages have not blushed
to assert, she cannot but glory in the advance of the
sciences. She has always favoured them, and it is chiefly
owing to her influence, that they have been preserved in the
midst of the barbarism from which she has rescued us. Thus
the progress of true science, _the progress of light_ (to
use a legitimate though often abused expression,) far from
being at variance with revealed religion, as its enemies
have represented,--far from being dangerous to it, as some
of its disciples have appeared to fear, tends, on the
contrary, each day to strengthen its claims upon all
enlightened minds, and to prove, in opposition to the pride
of false science, that this divine religion, confirmed as it
is by all the truths to which the human mind attains, _is
the truth of the Lord which endureth forever_."
We have ventured upon this protracted notice of the Essay of Mons.
Greppo, because the subject itself is one of gratifying pursuit even to
the mere scholar, but still more because it is vitally connected with
the evidences of revealed religion in which we hope that none of our
readers are altogether uninterested. There is in the Essay, no question
as to any of the minor points of the Christian faith,--there is here
nothing but what all may peruse with satisfaction. The question is one
entirely connected with evidence; and science and literature are pressed
fairly into the service of truth. The work is peculiarly valuable,
because it is the only work connected with the labours of Champollion
which has been made to wear an English dress. The works of both the
Champollions are locked up in a foreign language from most of our
readers; and we fear that the time will not soon come when there will be
sufficient encouragement either to translate or publish in this country
the splendid volumes of these brothers, who are, by their discoveries,
raising up for France the gratitude of the world. Until there shall be
liberality enough in our republic of letters, to enable us to possess
these works, with all their riches of illustration, and thus have
ancient Egypt brought to the inspection of American eyes, we would
recommend the work of Mons. Greppo, as the best, and indeed only
substitute at present known, always excepting the pages of our own
journal.
It is needless to say, that the merits of the translation cannot be
questioned, after the testimonials furnished by the learned Dr. Stuart;
without the advantage of comparing it with the original, we can speak of
its excellence relatively, for the style is clear, concise, and
classical.
ART. IV.--IRON.
1.--_Memorial of the workers in iron of Philadelphia,
praying that the present duty on imported iron may be
repealed, &c._
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