A view of the American Indians: their general character, customs, language, public festivals, religious rites, and traditions: shewing them to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The language of prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America / By Israel Worsley.

  • Worsley, Israel, 1768-1836.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A view of the American Indians: their general character, customs, language, public festivals, religious rites, and traditions: shewing them to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The language of prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America / By Israel Worsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE ORIGIN OF MANKIND. PLAN OF THE WORK. DlD we not know the rapacious disposition of mercan¬ tile men when they leave their home in order to enlarge their fortune and raise their families to wealth, it might be thought a most extraordinary thing, that the settlers on the western continent should have passed through a long succession of years without giving themselves any concern about the origin of the people among whom they had settled and whose land they had seized upon; that a race altogether different from any already found in any part of the world should be within their knowledge and under their eye, and yet no enquiry be made from what stock they had descended, and in what branch they were allied to the inhabitants of the old Continent The opinion generally prevailing among us is, that the whole human race is descended from one pair. This opinion is derived from what we regard as divine authority; but lest any of my readers should question that authority, and conceive that the early part of the history of the world B