{"collection":"earth","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/earth/pf/pf02.htm","path":"earth/pf/pf02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/earth/pf/pf02.htm","text":"Paradise Found, by William F. Warren, [1885]\n| | Page | \n| DEDICATION | v | \n| PREFACE | viii | \n| | | \n| PART FIRST. | | \n| THE LOCATION OF EDEN: STATE OF THE QUESTION. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| THE RESULTS OF EXPLORERS, HISTORIC AND LEGENDARY. | | \n| Columbus approaching the gate | 3 | \n| The report of Sir John de Maundeville | 7 | \n| Adventures of Prince Eirek | 10 | \n| The voyages of St. Brandan and of Oger | 12 | \n| The success of the author of The Book of Enoch | 20 | \n| An equestrian's anticipations | 21 | \n| David Livingstone a searcher for Eden | 22 | \n| Unanimous verdict: Non est inventus | 22 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| THE RESULTS OF THEOLOGIANS. | | \n| Ideas of the church fathers | 23 | \n| Opinions of Luther and of Calvin | 25 | \n| Contemporary opinion entirely conflicting | 25 | \n| Inconclusive character of the Biblical data | 26 | \n| The garden \"eastward\" | 27 | \n| The \"Euphrates\" | 28 | \n| The problem \"unsolved if not insoluble\" | 32 | \n| p. xiv | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE RESULTS OF NON-THEOLOGICAL SCHOLARS: NATURALISTS, ETHNOLOGISTS, ETC. | | \n| The unity of the human species | 33 | \n| But one \"mother-region\" | 33 | \n| Its location\u2014ten different answers | 35 | \n| Views of Darwin, H\u00e4ckel, Peschel, etc. | 35 | \n| Views of Quatrefages, Obry, etc. | 36 | \n| Locations of lost Atlantis | 38 | \n| Theory of Friedrich Delitzsch | 39 | \n| Theory of E. Beauvois | 41 | \n| Theory of Gerald Massey | 42 | \n| The Utopians | 43 | \n| Despair of a solution | 43 | \n| | | \n| PART SECOND. | | \n| A FRESH HYPOTHESIS: PRIMITIVE EDEN AT THE NORTH POLE. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| THE HYPOTHESIS, AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS ADMISSIBILITY. | | \n| Statement of the hypothesis | 47 | \n| Seven sciences to be satisfied | 48 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| IMPORTANT NEW FEATURES AT ONCE INTRODUCED INTO THE PROBLEM OF THE SITE OF EDEN AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FOR A VALID SOLUTION. | | \n| Seven peculiarities of a polar Eden | 50 | \n| Our hypothesis consequently most difficult | 53 | \n| Its certain break-down if not true | 53 | \n| | | \n| PART THIRD. | | \n| THE HYPOTHESIS SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED AND CONFIRMED. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF SCIENTIFIC GEOGONY. | | \n| Popular prepossessions | 57 | \n| Secular refrigeration of the earth | 57 | \n| p. xv | | \n| Inevitable implications of the doctrine | 58 | \n| Bearing of these upon our problem | 59 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY. | | \n| Length of the polar day | 60 | \n| Mistakes of Geikie and Lyell | 60 | \n| The actual duration of daylight | 61 | \n| Experience of Weyprecht and Payer | 62 | \n| Experience of Barentz | 63 | \n| Citation from Baron Nordenskj\u00f6ld | 63 | \n| The statement of Captain Pim | 64 | \n| The explanation of discrepancies | 65 | \n| A safe settlement of the question | 66 | \n| The polar night | 68 | \n| Aspects and progress of the polar day | 69 | \n| A paradisaic abode | 70 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF PHYSIOGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY. | | \n| A primitive circumpolar continent | 71 | \n| Anticipated by Klee | 71 | \n| Speculations of Wallace | 72 | \n| Postulated by Professor Heer | 73 | \n| Also by Baron Nordenskj\u00f6ld | 73 | \n| Testimony of Starkie Gardner | 74 | \n| Testimony of Geikie | 74 | \n| Theories as to its submergence | 75 | \n| Adh\u00e9mar's theory | 75 | \n| Theory of tidal action | 75 | \n| Leibnitz's theory of crust-collapse | 79 | \n| Summary of evidence under this head | 82 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF PREHISTORIC CLIMATOLOGY. | | \n| Primeval temperature at the Pole | 83 | \n| The evidence of scientific geogony | 84 | \n| The evidence of paleontological botany | 84 | \n| Testimony of life-history | 85 | \n| Estimates of Professor Heer | 85 | \n| Declaration of Sir Charles Lyell | 86 | \n| Conclusion | 86 | \n| p. xvi | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER V. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL BOTANY. | | \n| The starting-point of all floral types | 87 | \n| A remarkable recent discovery | 87 | \n| Sir Joseph Hooker | 88 | \n| The contribution of Heer | 89 | \n| Of Professor Asa Gray | 90 | \n| The claim of Count Saporta | 90 | \n| The conclusions of Otto Kuntze | 92 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VI. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ZO\u00d6LOGY. | | \n| Geographical distribution of animals | 93 | \n| First remarkable fact | 93 | \n| Second remarkable fact | 94 | \n| Language of Professor Orton | 94 | \n| Language of Professor Packard | 94 | \n| Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace cited | 95 | \n| Conclusion | 95 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VII. | | \n| THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY. | | \n| One traveler who has been in Eden | 97 | \n| His note-books lost | 97 | \n| What says Pal\u00e9oethnique science? | 97 | \n| The first conclusions of Quatrefages | 98 | \n| His premonitions of a new doctrine | 98 | \n| Count Saporta's conclusions | 99 | \n| F. M\u00fcller and M. Wagner's views | 100 | \n| Anthropogony by virtue of ice and cold | 100 | \n| An unacceptable theory | 101 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VIII. | | \n| CONCLUSION OF PART THIRD. | | \n| A word from Principal Dawson | 102 | \n| Summary of results thus far | 102 | \n| An unexpected reinforcement | 103 | \n| \"Where did Life Begin?\" | 103 | \n| Confirmatory extracts | 104 | \n| p. xvii | | \n| | | \n| PART FOURTH. | | \n| THE HYPOTHESIS CONFIRMED BY ETHNIC TRADITION. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| ANCIENT COSMOLOGY AND MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY. | | \n| The mistaken modern assumption | 117 | \n| The \"True Key\" | 120 | \n| General statement | 121 | \n| The \"Mountain of the World\" | 123 | \n| The same in Egyptian Mythology | 124 | \n| In the Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian | 126 | \n| In the Chinese | 128 | \n| Lithe Indo-Aryan | 129 | \n| In the Buddhistic | 131 | \n| In the Iranian | 133 | \n| In the Greek and Roman | 135 | \n| The Underworld | 137 | \n| Cautions as to interpretation | 137 | \n| The chorography of Christian hymns | 138 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT JAPANESE THOUGHT. | | \n| The most ancient Japanese book | 140 | \n| Japanese cosmogony | 140 | \n| Izanagi's spear | 140 | \n| \"The Island of the Congealed Drop\" | 141 | \n| Sir Edward Reed places it at the Pole | 141 | \n| Mr. Griffis reaches the same conclusion | 141 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN CHINESE THOUGHT. | | \n| The Tauist paradise | 143 | \n| Descriptions | 143 | \n| The stupendous world-pillar | 144 | \n| Connects the terrestrial and celestial paradises | 145 | \n| Same idea in the Talmud | 145 | \n| \"The Strength of the Hill of Sion\" | 145 | \n| Shang-te's upper and lower palaces | 146 | \n| At the celestial and terrestrial Poles | 146 | \n| p. xviii | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN EAST ARYAN OR HINDU THOUGHT. | | \n| The world of the Brahmans | 148 | \n| The abode of Yama | 149 | \n| The varshas of the upper world | 150 | \n| The northward journey to Mount Meru | 150 | \n| The descent to Uttarakuru | 151 | \n| Illustrations of the Puranic world | 151 | \n| Il\u00e2vrita, the Hindu's Eden | 151 | \n| Its north polar position | 151 | \n| Lenormant's language | 151 | \n| Ritter's unwitting testimony | 154 | \n| \"The polar region is Meru\" | 154 | \n| \"Meru the Garden of the Tree of Life\" | 154 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER V. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN IRANIAN OR OLD-PERSIAN THOUGHT. | | \n| The primitive pair and their abode | 155 | \n| Key to the Iranian cosmography | 155 | \n| The Chinvat Bridge | 155 | \n| Current misinterpretations | 156 | \n| Twelve questions answered | 156 | \n| True nature of the bridge | 158 | \n| Its position | 158 | \n| Position of Kvan\u00eeras | 158 | \n| The mythic geography of the Persians | 159 | \n| Diagram of the Keshvares | 159 | \n| Polar position of \"Iran the Ancient\" | 161 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VI. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN AKKADIAN, ASSYRIAN, AND BABYLONIAN THOUGHT. | | \n| The sacred mountain | 163 | \n| Chald\u00e6an cosmology | 163 | \n| Lenormant's exposition | 163 | \n| Three inconsistencies | 165 | \n| Location of the world-mountain | 166 | \n| Lenormant's difficulties | 166 | \n| The true solution | 168 | \n| Two Akkads | 168 | \n| The mount of the Underworld | 169 | \n| It determines the site of Kharsak | 170 | \n| And this the site of the Akkadian Eden | 171 | \n| p. xix | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VII. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THOUGHT. | | \n| Underestimates of Egyptian science | 172 | \n| Six theses in Egyptian cosmology | 173 | \n| Its earth a sphere | 174 | \n| Northern and southern termini | 174 | \n| Four supports of heaven at the North | 174 | \n| A parallel in Buddhist cosmology | 175 | \n| The southern hemisphere the Underworld | 176 | \n| The highest North the abode of the gods | 179 | \n| An interesting hieroglyph | 179 | \n| Plato's Egyptian Eden-story | 181 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VIII. | | \n| THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT | | \n| Supposed discrepancies of tradition | 182 | \n| Possible agreement | 182 | \n| A reminiscence of Mount Meru | 183 | \n| Renan and Lenormant | 183 | \n| Lost Atlantis | 184 | \n| Deukalion, a man of the North | 186 | \n| The Isles of Kronos | 187 | \n| The Golden Age | 187 | \n| Wolfgang Menzel's verdict | 187 | \n| Conclusion and transition | 187 | \n| | | \n| PART FIFTH. | | \n| FURTHER VERIFICATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS BASED UPON A STUDY OF THE PECULIARITIES OF A POLAR PARADISE. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| THE EDEN STARS. | | \n| Stellar motion at the Pole | 191 | \n| Has tradition any reminiscence of such? | 191 | \n| The strange doctrine of Anaxagoras | 191 | \n| Chald\u00e6an and Egyptian traditions | 193 | \n| A natural explanation | 194 | \n| The myth of Pha\u00ebthon | 195 | \n| Iranian and Aztec traditions | 196 | \n| Result | 196 | \n| p. xx | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| THE EDEN DAY. | | \n| Length of day at the Pole | 197 | \n| Sunrise in the South | 197 | \n| The tradition of the Northmen | 199 | \n| The tradition of the ancient Persians | 197 | \n| The tradition of the East Aryans | 198 | \n| The year-day of Homer | 200 | \n| The tradition of the Navajos | 201 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE EDEN ZENITH. | | \n| The polar zenith is the Pole | 202 | \n| This the true heaven of the first men | 202 | \n| The Hebrew conception | 203 | \n| The Egyptian conception | 208 | \n| The Akkadian conception | 209 | \n| The Assyrio-Babylonian conception | 209 | \n| The Sab\u00e6an conception | 210 | \n| The Vedic conception | 210 | \n| The Buddhistic conception | 211 | \n| The Ph\u0153nician conception | 212 | \n| The Greek conception | 212 | \n| The Etruscan and Roman conception | 213 | \n| The Japanese conception | 215 | \n| The Chinese conception | 215 | \n| The ancient Germanic conception | 217 | \n| The ancient Finnic conception | 218 | \n| How came the Biblical Eden to be in the East? | 219 | \n| Solution of the problem | 219 | \n| Confirmations and illustrations | 222 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH. | | \n| Prevalence of the expression | 225 | \n| Its symbolical and commemorative character | 228 | \n| The Jerusalem earth-centre | 234 | \n| That of the Greeks | 234 | \n| That of the Babylonians | 239 | \n| That of the Hindus | 240 | \n| p. xxi | | \n| That of the Persians | 243 | \n| That of the Chinese | 244 | \n| That of the Japanese | 245 | \n| That of the Northmen | 246 | \n| That of the Mexicans | 246 | \n| That of the Peruvians and others | 247 | \n| Result | 248 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER V. | | \n| THE QUADRIFURCATE RIVER. | | \n| Origin and nature of this river | 250 | \n| Sacred hydrography of the Persians | 251 | \n| All waters have one headspring | 251 | \n| Also one place of discharge | 251 | \n| Exposition of the system | 252 | \n| Similar ideas among the Greeks | 254 | \n| The Vedic system | 257 | \n| The Puranic | 259 | \n| Traces in Christian legend | 260 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VI. | | \n| THE CENTRAL TREE. | | \n| The tree in the midst of the garden | 262 | \n| Were there two? | 262 | \n| Its inevitable significance if at the North Pole | 263 | \n| The Yggdrasil of the Northmen | 264 | \n| The World-tree of the Akkadians | 264 | \n| The Tat-pillar of the Egyptians | 265 | \n| The Winged Oak of the Ph\u0153nicians | 266 | \n| The White H\u00f4m of the Persians | 267 | \n| The cosmic A\u015bvattha of the Hindus | 269 | \n| The holy Palm of the Greeks | 270 | \n| The Bodhi tree of the Buddhists | 271 | \n| The Irmensul of the Saxons | 272 | \n| The Arbre Sec of the Middle Ages | 273 | \n| The Tong of the Chinese | 274 | \n| The World-reed of the Navajos | 274 | \n| The Apple-tree of Avalon | 276 | \n| The star-bearing World-tree of the Finns | 276 | \n| p. xxii | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VII. | | \n| THE EXUBERANCE OF LIFE. | | \n| Ethnic traditions of the Earth's deterioration | 279 | \n| Also of the deterioration of mankind | 281 | \n| Stature and longevity of primeval men | 281 | \n| All credible on our hypothesis | 284 | \n| Language of Professor Nicholson | 285 | \n| A citation from Figuier | 285 | \n| The gigantic Sequoia of Arctic origin | 286 | \n| Animal life in the Tertiary period | 289 | \n| Primitive forms by no means monstrosities | 294 | \n| All this wealth of fauna from the North | 297 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VIII. | | \n| REVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT. | | \n| Nature of the argument | 300 | \n| Seven tests applicable to any location | 300 | \n| Seven others peculiar to a location at the Pole | 300 | \n| A double demonstration | 301 | \n| Bailly's approximation to the truth | 303 | \n| Another independent line of evidence | 303 | \n| Philosophy of previous failures | 304 | \n| Philosophy of medi\u00e6val confusion | 304 | \n| Patristic descriptions made plain | 305 | \n| The world of Cosmas Indicopleustes | 305 | \n| The world of Columbus | 306 | \n| The world of Dante | 307 | \n| How highest heaven came to be under foot | 309 | \n| | | \n| PART SIXTH. | | \n| THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR RESULTS. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| THEIR BEARING UPON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS. | | \n| The sciences immediately affected | 313 | \n| The services of biology to arch\u00e6ology | 314 | \n| The services of arch\u00e6ology to biology | 314 | \n| Narrowness of many biologists | 315 | \n| Evils thereof | 315 | \n| | | \n| The true corrective | 317 | \n| The latest generalization of paleontology | 317 | \n| Anticipated in two Persian myths | 317 | \n| Terrestrial life-gamut of the Hindus | 319 | \n| Its lesson to students of the Origin of Life | 319 | \n| Extraordinary biological conditions | 320 | \n| Most favorable of all at the Poles | 320 | \n| Biological superiority of the North Pole | 321 | \n| Reasons to be more fully investigated | 322 | \n| Heightened fascination of polar exploration | 325 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE STUDY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE. | | \n| Darwin's primeval man | 326 | \n| His discovery of the sky | 327 | \n| And of trees of infinite height | 327 | \n| The \"short memories\" of Vedic worshipers | 327 | \n| Their ocean-producing imaginations | 328 | \n| Bunbury on Homeric science | 328 | \n| Exegetical distortions of ancient thought | 328 | \n| Homer's cosmology re-expounded | 329 | \n| First, as to the movement of the sun | 329 | \n| Second, as to the location of Hades | 332 | \n| Third, as to .the cosmic water-system | 333 | \n| Fourth, as to the Olympos of the gods | 338 | \n| Fifth, as to the tall pillars of Atlas | 350 | \n| The exegetical method dictated by our results | 359 | \n| Its fruitfulness in the future | 360 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLIEST FORM OF RELIGION. | | \n| The pan-ethnic account | 363 | \n| Hume's dissent | 364 | \n| The doctrine of Comte | 369 | \n| Miller's refutation of primitive fetichism | 370 | \n| Sir John Lubbock's scheme | 372 | \n| Refutation by Roskoff and others | 375 | \n| Caspari's theory | 375 | \n| The theory of Jules Baissac | 382 | \n| p. xxiv | | \n| Current approximations of teaching | 385 | \n| As to the origin of the arts | 386 | \n| As to intellectual powers of the first men | 386 | \n| As to their super-fetichistic attitude | 390 | \n| As to their monogamous family form | 392 | \n| As to their capacity for monotheism | 397 | \n| Seven conclusion | 403 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| THE BEARING OF OUR. RESULTS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND ON THE THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION. | | \n| The apostles of primeval savagery | 407 | \n| Their doctrine | 407 | \n| Sub-savage stupidity of the first men | 408 | \n| Dr. Wilhelm Mannhardt's representation | 409 | \n| A most important primitive discovery | 410 | \n| Daphne not a tree | 410 | \n| Emphatic demand for antediluvian longevity | 410 | \n| The new Babel | 411 | \n| Nine memoranda | 411 | \n| Primeval human history | 418 | \n| The ancient ethnic view Biblical and true | 419 | \n| Plato's antediluvian age | 420 | \n| The consensus of all ancient religions | 422 | \n| The \"Stone Age\" in the light of our results | 422 | \n| Origin of postdiluvian laws and states | 423 | \n| An imaginary conversation | 424 | \n| A pagan testimony | 432 | \n| To those who hear not Moses and the Prophet's | 432 | \n| Conclusion | 432 | \n| | | \n| APPENDIX. | | \n| I. The Earth of Columbus not a True Sphere | 435 | \n| II. How the Earth was Peopled | 437 | \n| III. Reception of \"The True Key\" | 450 | \n| IV. The Earth and World of the Hindus | 459 | \n| V. The World-Pillar of the Rig Veda | 465 | \n| VI. Homer's Abode of the Dead | 467 | \n| VII. Latest Polar Research | 487 | \n| VIII. Trustworthiness of Early Tradition | 492 | \n| IX. Index of Authors cited | 497 | \n| X. Index to the Work | 502 |","title":"Paradise Found: Table of Contents","type":"page"}