But it was not the _bloodshed_ of the scene that affected them half so much as the _insult_ offered by the erection of the _Tower_![312] And as no clue can be so adequate for the analysis of this _enigma_ as that which they themselves have bequeathed,--for it was from the _Yavanas_ or _Pish_-de-danaans that Moses had been taught the fact,--I shall place such before your eyes, in all the eloquence of a self-interpreting dissyllable. מנרל is the name by which the scriptural record perpetuates this structure.[313] If you put this into English letters, and read them regularly, from left to right, it will be _Lidgam_. But the Hebrews read in the opposite direction, from right to left; and that is the very cause of the appearance of the _d_ in the word; for as _Magnil_--reading backwards--would produce a _cacophony_, the _n_ of the original was left out, and _d_ substituted, making _Magdil_: reinstate, therefore, the _n_, and enunciate the Hebrew word, as you would the Irish or the Sanscrit, and it will not only unmask the _secret_ of this long-disputed edifice, but _be_, _sound_, and _personate_, in all the nicety of accentuation, _Lingam_, and thus prevent all further controversy about the character of the _Tower_ of Babel. “The waies through which my weary steps I guide, In this researche of old antiquitie, Are so exceeding riche, and long, and wyde, And sprinkled with such sweet varietie, Of all that pleasant is to eare and eye, That I, nigh ravisht with rare thought’s delight, My tedious travel quite forgot thereby; And when I gin to feel decay of might, It strength to me supplies and cheers my dulled spright.”[314] CHAPTER XXI. I have stated that it was from the _Pish_-de-danaans or Yavana philosophers of Egypt that Moses had learned the allegories of the Deluge and of the Fall. I now add, _that it was by them also he had been instructed in that consolatory assurance which told him_ that the “Seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head.”[315] In truth, it was this very promise made to the ancestors of those people in _Paradise_, which is but another name for _Iran_,[316] that gave rise to the _schism_ between them and the _Tuath_-de-danaans. “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy _conception_; in sorrow thou shalt _bring forth children_: and thy _desire_ shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”[317] The _nature_ of the _crime_ is here clearly denoted by the _suitableness_ of the _punishment_.[318] But the same over-ruling Judge, who, in conformity with His justice, could not but chastise the violation of His injunctions, yet, in mercy to man’s weakness, and seeing that “he also is flesh,” condescended to promise that the _instrument_ of his _seduction_ should be also the _vehicle_ of his _redeeming triumph_.