Transcriber's Note This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the '_' character as _italic_. The 'oe' ligature is printed as separate characters. Non-English language quotations are given as printed. Passages in Greek are transliterated, and denoted as [Greek: Athiopas toi ...]. Footnotes have been consolidated and moved to directly follow the paragraph where they are referenced. In the printed version, footnotes were numbered consecutively, beginning anew with each chapter. Here, they have been re-sequenced for uniqueness. References to those notes in the text and the transcriber's errata are to the new numbers. There are several footnotes that appear in other footnotes. These have been lettered as [A], [B], [C], and follow the note containing the reference. In a number of places, passages are compared by placing them in parallel columns, usually across several pages. The left hand column is given contiguously with a wide right margin, and then the right hand column, with a large left margin. On p. 262, four columns are used for comparison. Each is given in turn, with no attempt to simulate the format. Please see the notes at the end of this text for a more detailed list of specific issues encountered and the resolutions of each. TRADITION PRINCIPALLY WITH REFERENCE TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EDINBURGH AND LONDON TRADITION PRINCIPALLY WITH REFERENCE TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS. BY LORD ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR. LONDON: BURNS, OATES, & COMPANY, 17 & 18 PORTMAN STREET, AND 63 PATERNOSTER ROW. 1872. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE PREFACE, ix MEMOIR OF COLONEL GEORGE MACDONELL, C.B., xix I. THE LAW OF NATIONS, 1 II. THE LAW OF NATURE, 20 III. PRIMITIVE LIFE, 26 IV. CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TRADITION, 55 V. CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SCIENCE, 72 VI. PALMER ON EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY, 92 VII. THE TRADITION OF THE HUMAN RACE, 105 VIII. MYTHOLOGY, 157 IX. ASSYRIAN MYTHOLOGY, 182