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The author is greatly indebted to The Covenant PublishingCo. of London and Messrs. Williams and Norgate, London,for their kind permission to reproduce their plates.TRACING OUR ANCESTORSby: Frederick HabermanChapter 1 MISSING LINKSWhen Charles Kingsley chose the title of "Westward Ho" for his story of adventure inthe age of Elizabeth, he expressed in that title that age-long urge of the race, "derDrang nach Western," as the Germans call it, to push forward towards the setting sun.It was on the astern shore that our nation was born, and gradually it spread towards thewest, towards the Alleghanies and the plains of Ohio; then onwards to the Mississippiand the western prairies, and finally across the Rockies and the Sierras and down thePacific slope to the Golden Gate. Several American authors during the Depressionhave reviewed those various stages and the spread of our civilization towards theGolden West and have reminded the perplexed people of America that we havereached the last frontier, as far as our material progress is concerned. But others againcan see farther than their brothers, that America has reached a New and SpiritualFrontier; and so America has; beyond the Golden Gate the sun dips into the Pacific torise again Phoenix-like very morning in the East, bringing in a New Day."Ephraim feedeth on wind, and FOLLOWETH AFTER THE EAST WIND..." (Hosea12:1)Although the sun is sinking today upon the material expansion of America, and forover three years the dark night of the Depression has overshadowed us, we may be
sure that there is a morning coming, and with it a sunrise, when a new Phoenix willarise "with healing in his wings."The story of the colonization and founding of America is so well known that it isuseless even to review it here. From the East, from Europe, our ancestors came; fromthe British Isles, from Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Scandinaviancountries came the people that gave America her character. With the history of thosecountries we are not concerned; we can read their story in every library. We are merelyinterested her in the question of the race from which they sprang, the so-called Anglo-Saxon race, and their origin. No matter how long they lived there, whether for one orfor two thousand or more years, what we want to investigate here is: Where did theycome from? Did they originate in Europe or did they not? If they were anything liketheir sons, the pioneers of America, they were not content to stay forever West. Suchindeed are the facts, as every evidence we have will show. As our fathers movedwestward, let us therefore retrace our coming in an easterly direction and start with theAtlantic seaboard of Western Europe.It is a curious phenomenon that our scientists who are so interested in the origin andevolution of man should be searching all over the globe for missing links, even deepbeneath the surface of the ground, going back for tens and hundreds of thousands of years, whey they know so little about the people of Europe of three and four thousandsyears ago and overlooked the many "missing links" lying and standing upon theground of Western Europe. It is equally strange that our archaeologists should spendmillions of dollars and years of labor digging up the ruins of Egypt and Mesopotamia,of Central America, and the Indian relics of North America, while no efforts are beingmade to solve the mysteries of Stonehenge and Avebury and other British stonecircles. Our great Ralph Waldo Emerson even expressed his surprise at this in hisessay on Stonehenge:"The chief mystery is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on soremarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes nowfor eighteen hundred years. We are not yet too late to learn much more than is knownof this structure. Some diligent Fellows or Lanyard will arrive, stone by stone, at thewhole of history, by exhaustive British sense and perseverance, so whimsical in itschoice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilstit opens pyramids, and uncovers Ninevah. Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of itsplan, and its good preservation, is as if new and recent; and, a thousand years hence,men will think this age for the accurate history it will eliminate."From the south of Portugal northward along the Bay of Biscay, in Brittany, along thewestern side of the British Isles, as far north as the Orkneys, and into Denmark,Sweden, and Norway we find gigantic stones and stone structures erected by the handof early man. Several types of those structures have been defined: Menhirs or "longstones" standing on end; dolmens {table stones}, house- like structures with stoneslabs or boulders for walls and roof; most of the latter, serving originally as tombs,were covered with mounds of dirt and are called tumuli.
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« prev | next »- TRACING OUR ANCESTORS
- Chapter 1 MISSING LINKS
- Chapter II WHO WERE THE ARYANS?
- NOTE: This brings to mind the Scripture which state:
- Chapter III WHERE WAS THE DELUGE?
- Chapter IV THE PHOENICIANS
- Mr. Davidson in his notes to Chart 30 of his "Babylonia and Central Asia" says:
- Chapter V THE COVENANT RACE
- Chapter VI EARLY MESSIANISM
- Indra alone hath tamed the dusky races And subdued them for the Aryans
- Chapter VII THE GOLDEN AGE OF PHOENICIA
- Aristotle in his "De Mundo" States:
- Chapter VIII DRUIDIC BRITAIN
- The Druidical doctrine concerning man's spiritual life is framed in the Triads:
- Caesar wrote in 54 B.C.:
- Chapter IX THE COMING OF BRUTUS
- St. Peter-Upon-Cornhill
- Chapter X OLD IRELAND
- Chapter XI THE ANGLO-SAXONS
- Chapter XII THE THRONE OF DAVID
- Was that the end of the Throne of David?
- Chapter XIII THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY
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