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46 HISTORY OF THE
to show when we come to treat of Egypt, the cradle
at once of religion and of science.
Mr O'Brien is now no more — he fought a good
battle — his work is a treat of eloquence and learn-
ing, but he took his premises in their secondary, or
consequential sense ; and, therefore, his conclusions
fail to convince. His round towers were decidedly
religious towers, but the primary idea is not the
lignum^ but the column of the Nile ; the orrery of
our Chaldean and Egyptian fathers — and by analogy
and convention, the sun — the God of the sun —
fecundity, &c. Their very name, teampul greine,
i.e. temple of the sun, proves this ; as also the ap-
pellation of their builders, Tauth^ or Tauthde-
danaans, which is equivalent to Tau, Taut, Tenth,
Tit, i.e. the Anubus, or barker-worshippers, of
whom Teutones, Titans, &c., &c.
TENTH WITNESS.
Opinion of the leayned and venerable Bishop Fuller.
— See his " Church History of Britain" vol. I. p. 65.
London, 1655.
" Only allow me to insert a line or two in commendation of
the British tongue,* and vindication thereof, against such as
* The term British is a religious one, or, if the reader pre-
fer it, a pagan term, having its root in the Cabalistical radicals
b, r, t. That the learned Bishop and we are pleading for the
same language under different names, let the following com-