[Footnote 52: He seems to think that Josephus was a Christian, and Syncellus a "Father." We might mention that from the fragments of Africanus' _Pentabiblion Chronicon_, preserved in Eusebius, the author places the Creation at 5499 B.C., which is certainly hardly compatible with his giving such fragments of Manetho as would place Menes one year before that date. If we know nothing of Manetho's results except through these "orthodox" sources, it is inconceivable that Mr. Laing's version of them should have any historical basis whatever. It comes in fine to this, that because their report of Manetho does not give Mr. Laing what he wants, they have been tampered with.] [Footnote 53: H.O. 11.] [Footnote 54: H.O. 22.] [Footnote 55: H.O. 17.] [Footnote 56: H.O. 42.] [Footnote 57: "There can be no doubt, moreover, that this Sargon I. is a perfectly historical personage. _A statue of him has been found at Agade."_ (H.O. 55.)] [Footnote 58: M.S. 50.] [Footnote 59: Ibid.] [Footnote 60: P.F. 28.] [Footnote 61: M.S. 61.] [Footnote 62: "Matter is made of molecules; molecules are made of atoms; atoms are little magnets which link themselves together and form all the complex creations of an ordered cosmos [an ordered order] by virtue of the attractive and repulsive forces which are the result of polarity." (P.F, 223.)] [Footnote 63: We suppose he has a right to call himself _agnostic_ as being a disciple of Professor Huxley, who, we believe, started or revived the term in our own times. Of course he is also a dogmatic materialist, and by no means an "agnostic" in the wider sense of general scepticism.] [Footnote 64: M.S. 171.] [Footnote 65: "Not only have no missing links been discovered, but the oldest known human skulls and skeletons, which date from the glacial period and are probably at least one hundred thousand years old, show no very decided approximation towards any such pre-human type. On the contrary," &c. (M.S. 181.) He replies (H.O. 373) that "five hundred thousand years prior to these men of Spy and Neanderthal, the human race has existed in higher physical perfection, nearer to the existing type of modern man," (Cf. P.F. 158.)] [Footnote 66: M.S. 112, 114.] [Footnote 67: P.F. 154.] [Footnote 68: P.F. 154.] [Footnote 69: M.S. 175.]