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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 

Page

DEDICATION

v

PREFACE

viii

 

 

PART FIRST.

 

THE LOCATION OF EDEN: STATE OF THE QUESTION.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

THE RESULTS OF EXPLORERS, HISTORIC AND LEGENDARY.

 

Columbus approaching the gate

3

The report of Sir John de Maundeville

7

Adventures of Prince Eirek

10

The voyages of St. Brandan and of Oger

12

The success of the author of The Book of Enoch

20

An equestrian's anticipations

21

David Livingstone a searcher for Eden

22

Unanimous verdict: Non est inventus

22

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

THE RESULTS OF THEOLOGIANS.

 

Ideas of the church fathers

23

Opinions of Luther and of Calvin

25

Contemporary opinion entirely conflicting

25

Inconclusive character of the Biblical data

26

The garden "eastward"

27

The "Euphrates"

28

The problem "unsolved if not insoluble"

32

p. xiv

 

 

 

CHAPTER III.

 

THE RESULTS OF NON-THEOLOGICAL SCHOLARS: NATURALISTS, ETHNOLOGISTS, ETC.

 

The unity of the human species

33

But one "mother-region"

33

Its location—ten different answers

35

Views of Darwin, Häckel, Peschel, etc.

35

Views of Quatrefages, Obry, etc.

36

Locations of lost Atlantis

38

Theory of Friedrich Delitzsch

39

Theory of E. Beauvois

41

Theory of Gerald Massey

42

The Utopians

43

Despair of a solution

43

 

 

PART SECOND.

 

A FRESH HYPOTHESIS: PRIMITIVE EDEN AT THE NORTH POLE.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

THE HYPOTHESIS, AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS ADMISSIBILITY.

 

Statement of the hypothesis

47

Seven sciences to be satisfied

48

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

IMPORTANT NEW FEATURES AT ONCE INTRODUCED INTO THE PROBLEM OF THE SITE OF EDEN AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FOR A VALID SOLUTION.

 

Seven peculiarities of a polar Eden

50

Our hypothesis consequently most difficult

53

Its certain break-down if not true

53

 

 

PART THIRD.

 

THE HYPOTHESIS SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED AND CONFIRMED.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF SCIENTIFIC GEOGONY.

 

Popular prepossessions

57

Secular refrigeration of the earth

57

p. xv

 

Inevitable implications of the doctrine

58

Bearing of these upon our problem

59

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY.

 

Length of the polar day

60

Mistakes of Geikie and Lyell

60

The actual duration of daylight

61

Experience of Weyprecht and Payer

62

Experience of Barentz

63

Citation from Baron Nordenskjöld

63

The statement of Captain Pim

64

The explanation of discrepancies

65

A safe settlement of the question

66

The polar night

68

Aspects and progress of the polar day

69

A paradisaic abode

70

 

 

CHAPTER III.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PHYSIOGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY.

 

A primitive circumpolar continent

71

Anticipated by Klee

71

Speculations of Wallace

72

Postulated by Professor Heer

73

Also by Baron Nordenskjöld

73

Testimony of Starkie Gardner

74

Testimony of Geikie

74

Theories as to its submergence

75

Adhémar's theory

75

Theory of tidal action

75

Leibnitz's theory of crust-collapse

79

Summary of evidence under this head

82

 

 

CHAPTER IV.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PREHISTORIC CLIMATOLOGY.

 

Primeval temperature at the Pole

83

The evidence of scientific geogony

84

The evidence of paleontological botany

84

Testimony of life-history

85

Estimates of Professor Heer

85

Declaration of Sir Charles Lyell

86

Conclusion

86

p. xvi

 

 

 

CHAPTER V.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL BOTANY.

 

The starting-point of all floral types

87

A remarkable recent discovery

87

Sir Joseph Hooker

88

The contribution of Heer

89

Of Professor Asa Gray

90

The claim of Count Saporta

90

The conclusions of Otto Kuntze

92

 

 

CHAPTER VI.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ZOÖLOGY.

 

Geographical distribution of animals

93

First remarkable fact

93

Second remarkable fact

94

Language of Professor Orton

94

Language of Professor Packard

94

Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace cited

95

Conclusion

95

 

 

CHAPTER VII.

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY.

 

One traveler who has been in Eden

97

His note-books lost

97

What says Paléoethnique science?

97

The first conclusions of Quatrefages

98

His premonitions of a new doctrine

98

Count Saporta's conclusions

99

F. Müller and M. Wagner's views

100

Anthropogony by virtue of ice and cold

100

An unacceptable theory

101

 

 

CHAPTER VIII.

 

CONCLUSION OF PART THIRD.

 

A word from Principal Dawson

102

Summary of results thus far

102

An unexpected reinforcement

103

"Where did Life Begin?"

103

Confirmatory extracts

104

p. xvii

 

 

 

PART FOURTH.

 

THE HYPOTHESIS CONFIRMED BY ETHNIC TRADITION.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

ANCIENT COSMOLOGY AND MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY.

 

The mistaken modern assumption

117

The "True Key"

120

General statement

121

The "Mountain of the World"

123

The same in Egyptian Mythology

124

In the Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian

126

In the Chinese

128

Lithe Indo-Aryan

129

In the Buddhistic

131

In the Iranian

133

In the Greek and Roman

135

The Underworld

137

Cautions as to interpretation

137

The chorography of Christian hymns

138

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT JAPANESE THOUGHT.

 

The most ancient Japanese book

140

Japanese cosmogony

140

Izanagi's spear

140

"The Island of the Congealed Drop"

141

Sir Edward Reed places it at the Pole

141

Mr. Griffis reaches the same conclusion

141

 

 

CHAPTER III.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN CHINESE THOUGHT.

 

The Tauist paradise

143

Descriptions

143

The stupendous world-pillar

144

Connects the terrestrial and celestial paradises

145

Same idea in the Talmud

145

"The Strength of the Hill of Sion"

145

Shang-te's upper and lower palaces

146

At the celestial and terrestrial Poles

146

p. xviii

 

 

 

CHAPTER IV.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN EAST ARYAN OR HINDU THOUGHT.

 

The world of the Brahmans

148

The abode of Yama

149

The varshas of the upper world

150

The northward journey to Mount Meru

150

The descent to Uttarakuru

151

Illustrations of the Puranic world

151

Ilâvrita, the Hindu's Eden

151

Its north polar position

151

Lenormant's language

151

Ritter's unwitting testimony

154

"The polar region is Meru"

154

"Meru the Garden of the Tree of Life"

154

 

 

CHAPTER V.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN IRANIAN OR OLD-PERSIAN THOUGHT.

 

The primitive pair and their abode

155

Key to the Iranian cosmography

155

The Chinvat Bridge

155

Current misinterpretations

156

Twelve questions answered

156

True nature of the bridge

158

Its position

158

Position of Kvanîras

158

The mythic geography of the Persians

159

Diagram of the Keshvares

159

Polar position of "Iran the Ancient"

161

 

 

CHAPTER VI.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN AKKADIAN, ASSYRIAN, AND BABYLONIAN THOUGHT.

 

The sacred mountain

163

Chaldæan cosmology

163

Lenormant's exposition

163

Three inconsistencies

165

Location of the world-mountain

166

Lenormant's difficulties

166

The true solution

168

Two Akkads

168

The mount of the Underworld

169

It determines the site of Kharsak

170

And this the site of the Akkadian Eden

171

p. xix

 

 

 

CHAPTER VII.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THOUGHT.

 

Underestimates of Egyptian science

172

Six theses in Egyptian cosmology

173

Its earth a sphere

174

Northern and southern termini

174

Four supports of heaven at the North

174

A parallel in Buddhist cosmology

175

The southern hemisphere the Underworld

176

The highest North the abode of the gods

179

An interesting hieroglyph

179

Plato's Egyptian Eden-story

181

 

 

CHAPTER VIII.

 

THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT

 

Supposed discrepancies of tradition

182

Possible agreement

182

A reminiscence of Mount Meru

183

Renan and Lenormant

183

Lost Atlantis

184

Deukalion, a man of the North

186

The Isles of Kronos

187

The Golden Age

187

Wolfgang Menzel's verdict

187

Conclusion and transition

187

 

 

PART FIFTH.

 

FURTHER VERIFICATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS BASED UPON A STUDY OF THE PECULIARITIES OF A POLAR PARADISE.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

THE EDEN STARS.

 

Stellar motion at the Pole

191

Has tradition any reminiscence of such?

191

The strange doctrine of Anaxagoras

191

Chaldæan and Egyptian traditions

193

A natural explanation

194

The myth of Phaëthon

195

Iranian and Aztec traditions

196

Result

196

p. xx

 

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

THE EDEN DAY.

 

Length of day at the Pole

197

Sunrise in the South

197

The tradition of the Northmen

199

The tradition of the ancient Persians

197

The tradition of the East Aryans

198

The year-day of Homer

200

The tradition of the Navajos

201

 

 

CHAPTER III.

 

THE EDEN ZENITH.

 

The polar zenith is the Pole

202

This the true heaven of the first men

202

The Hebrew conception

203

The Egyptian conception

208

The Akkadian conception

209

The Assyrio-Babylonian conception

209

The Sabæan conception

210

The Vedic conception

210

The Buddhistic conception

211

The Phœnician conception

212

The Greek conception

212

The Etruscan and Roman conception

213

The Japanese conception

215

The Chinese conception

215

The ancient Germanic conception

217

The ancient Finnic conception

218

How came the Biblical Eden to be in the East?

219

Solution of the problem

219

Confirmations and illustrations

222

 

 

CHAPTER IV.

 

THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH.

 

Prevalence of the expression

225

Its symbolical and commemorative character

228

The Jerusalem earth-centre

234

That of the Greeks

234

That of the Babylonians

239

That of the Hindus

240

p. xxi

 

That of the Persians

243

That of the Chinese

244

That of the Japanese

245

That of the Northmen

246

That of the Mexicans

246

That of the Peruvians and others

247

Result

248

 

 

CHAPTER V.

 

THE QUADRIFURCATE RIVER.

 

Origin and nature of this river

250

Sacred hydrography of the Persians

251

All waters have one headspring

251

Also one place of discharge

251

Exposition of the system

252

Similar ideas among the Greeks

254

The Vedic system

257

The Puranic

259

Traces in Christian legend

260

 

 

CHAPTER VI.

 

THE CENTRAL TREE.

 

The tree in the midst of the garden

262

Were there two?

262

Its inevitable significance if at the North Pole

263

The Yggdrasil of the Northmen

264

The World-tree of the Akkadians

264

The Tat-pillar of the Egyptians

265

The Winged Oak of the Phœnicians

266

The White Hôm of the Persians

267

The cosmic Aśvattha of the Hindus

269

The holy Palm of the Greeks

270

The Bodhi tree of the Buddhists

271

The Irmensul of the Saxons

272

The Arbre Sec of the Middle Ages

273

The Tong of the Chinese

274

The World-reed of the Navajos

274

The Apple-tree of Avalon

276

The star-bearing World-tree of the Finns

276

p. xxii

 

 

 

CHAPTER VII.

 

THE EXUBERANCE OF LIFE.

 

Ethnic traditions of the Earth's deterioration

279

Also of the deterioration of mankind

281

Stature and longevity of primeval men

281

All credible on our hypothesis

284

Language of Professor Nicholson

285

A citation from Figuier

285

The gigantic Sequoia of Arctic origin

286

Animal life in the Tertiary period

289

Primitive forms by no means monstrosities

294

All this wealth of fauna from the North

297

 

 

CHAPTER VIII.

 

REVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT.

 

Nature of the argument

300

Seven tests applicable to any location

300

Seven others peculiar to a location at the Pole

300

A double demonstration

301

Bailly's approximation to the truth

303

Another independent line of evidence

303

Philosophy of previous failures

304

Philosophy of mediæval confusion

304

Patristic descriptions made plain

305

The world of Cosmas Indicopleustes

305

The world of Columbus

306

The world of Dante

307

How highest heaven came to be under foot

309

 

 

PART SIXTH.

 

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR RESULTS.

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

THEIR BEARING UPON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS.

 

The sciences immediately affected

313

The services of biology to archæology

314

The services of archæology to biology

314

Narrowness of many biologists

315

Evils thereof

315

 

The true corrective

317

The latest generalization of paleontology

317

Anticipated in two Persian myths

317

Terrestrial life-gamut of the Hindus

319

Its lesson to students of the Origin of Life

319

Extraordinary biological conditions

320

Most favorable of all at the Poles

320

Biological superiority of the North Pole

321

Reasons to be more fully investigated

322

Heightened fascination of polar exploration

325

 

 

CHAPTER II.

 

THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE STUDY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE.

 

Darwin's primeval man

326

His discovery of the sky

327

And of trees of infinite height

327

The "short memories" of Vedic worshipers

327

Their ocean-producing imaginations

328

Bunbury on Homeric science

328

Exegetical distortions of ancient thought

328

Homer's cosmology re-expounded

329

First, as to the movement of the sun

329

Second, as to the location of Hades

332

Third, as to .the cosmic water-system

333

Fourth, as to the Olympos of the gods

338

Fifth, as to the tall pillars of Atlas

350

The exegetical method dictated by our results

359

Its fruitfulness in the future

360

 

 

CHAPTER III.

 

THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLIEST FORM OF RELIGION.

 

The pan-ethnic account

363

Hume's dissent

364

The doctrine of Comte

369

Miller's refutation of primitive fetichism

370

Sir John Lubbock's scheme

372

Refutation by Roskoff and others

375

Caspari's theory

375

The theory of Jules Baissac

382

p. xxiv

 

Current approximations of teaching

385

As to the origin of the arts

386

As to intellectual powers of the first men

386

As to their super-fetichistic attitude

390

As to their monogamous family form

392

As to their capacity for monotheism

397

Seven conclusion

403

 

 

CHAPTER IV.

 

THE BEARING OF OUR. RESULTS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND ON THE THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION.

 

The apostles of primeval savagery

407

Their doctrine

407

Sub-savage stupidity of the first men

408

Dr. Wilhelm Mannhardt's representation

409

A most important primitive discovery

410

Daphne not a tree

410

Emphatic demand for antediluvian longevity

410

The new Babel

411

Nine memoranda

411

Primeval human history

418

The ancient ethnic view Biblical and true

419

Plato's antediluvian age

420

The consensus of all ancient religions

422

The "Stone Age" in the light of our results

422

Origin of postdiluvian laws and states

423

An imaginary conversation

424

A pagan testimony

432

To those who hear not Moses and the Prophet's

432

Conclusion

432

 

 

APPENDIX.

 

   I. The Earth of Columbus not a True Sphere

435

  II. How the Earth was Peopled

437

 III. Reception of "The True Key"

450

  IV. The Earth and World of the Hindus

459

   V. The World-Pillar of the Rig Veda

465

  VI. Homer's Abode of the Dead

467

 VII. Latest Polar Research

487

VIII. Trustworthiness of Early Tradition

492

  IX. Index of Authors cited

497

   X. Index to the Work

502


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