Volume 1

The history of woman : and her connexion with religion, civilization, and domestic manners, from the earliest period / by S.W. Fullom.

  • Stephen Watson Fullom
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of woman : and her connexion with religion, civilization, and domestic manners, from the earliest period / by S.W. Fullom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    how empires have risen and fallen, religions disappeared, and entire races been swept away—we shall better understand how very faintly this slight record represents the annals of the antediluvian nations. Colossal monarchies must have grown up, wars and conflicts have raged, great cha- racters have flourished, religious creeds, differing from any of which we have cog- nizance, enslaved the hearts of supersti- tious millions; yet of all not a memorial remains, to indicate that they have ever existed. What progress had been made in civilization—whether mankind yet possessed any literature, and how far they were acquainted with the arts and sciences, must for ever remain a mystery, baffling even conjecture; but it cannot be doubted that the great longevity of the antediluvian patriarchs, extending their lives over many centuries, was eminently favourable to the diffusion of knowledge. Astronomy espe- cially must soon have attracted the atten- tion of wandering tribes, as they made their way into the unexplored wilderness, with no
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