Ab sense.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Ichthys
They don't write sentences like this any more . . .
From "
"But of this we are certain, that the early progenitors of our stock were well skilled in the mechanical arts,that their knowledge of them descended to the post-diluvians-witness the assertions of Moses, Herodotus and all olden writers, whose works survive to our time,-that within the first ten centuries which succeeded the all but universal destruction of man by the flood, were achieved some of the sublimest efforts recorded by history-Babel, Pyramid and a hundred nameless cities now whelmed by the sand of the desert Afric,-that when Alexander diverted, by his astonishing conquests and by his liberal patronage of learning, the lore of India and Persia from the profundities or the Braminical and Perseeian polity into a Grecian channel, much apocryphal matter, gendered by that subtle and vain nation, was amalgamated therewith, and, finally, upon the subjection of Greece by the Romans and the reception in the fourth century by the latter - with the doctrines of Jesus Christ-of the ancient Vedas or Scriptures of the Hebrews, that the Gnostic heresy, having accomplished the ruin of all Cite other Asiatico-European bastard progeny, fell-the last crowned horror of long-since forgotten blasphemies-and with it the concomitants necessary to the evolution of another of that species."
From "
MEMOIRS
OF
ICHTHYOSAURI
AND
PLESIOSAURI,
EXTINCT MONSTERS
OF THE ANCIENT EARTH
by
THOMAS HAWKINS, Esq. F.G.S.
&c. &c. &c.
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