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If Col. {{Style S-Small capitals|Olcott}} and Mme. {{Style S-Small capitals|Blavatsky}} had staid in the United States, instead of going to India in search of the true faith among the Brahmins, they might have found a religion more truly bric-à-brac than anything they will discover in Bombay. As it is, Boston has secured this inestimable boon, and is at this moment in possession of a faith as ancient, if we may believe the missionaries, as the American continent. This cultus has been imported from the far West by a band of Zuni Indians, who live in New-Mexico. The Zuni religion is a delightful form of paganism, much more pagan, in fact, than that of the ancient Greeks, or even than of the earliest Phœnicians. Precisely what the Zuni faith consists of no non-Zuni person can tell. The delightful mystery which envelops this antique religion constitutes its chief charm. No sensible person would care much for a creed, confession of faith, and ritual which could be understood by everybody. If it were not for its being a peculiarly rococo and early-twilight religion, Boston would not have cared a rap for the Zuni development. Every æsthetic person knows that the further back in the world’s history we go, the better do things become. Boston has something better than early English or even the Italian Renaissance. It has the Zuni religion. | |||
How long the Zuni Indians have maintained their strange and mystic ritual may be estimated from a single statement: When the Zuni faith was first revealed to man, one of the conditions imposed upon the patriarchs of the tribe was that they should go to the sea-side every month and bring home a quantity of sea-water for incantation purposes. As the region now known as New-Mexico was then near the borders of what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean, this was an easy task. But, as all geographers and other scientific persons very well know, the American continent has been steadily rising from the sea, ever since its foundations were laid. It has been estimated by a well-known scientific person that the continent has risen three-quarters of an inch during the last five centuries—without making any allowance of the strata of tomato cans and hoop-skirts formed along that portion of the Atlantic sea-board frequented by Summer visitors. If the student of theology will calculate the time required, on this basis, to raise from under high-water mark that portion of the American continent which lies between the Atlantic Ocean at Boston and the country of the Zunis in New-Mexico, he will ascertain with tolerable accuracy the age of the Zuni faith. And this calculation is now being worked out by several Harvard Professors, who will, in time, give the result to the world, showing that the Zuni variety of paganism is so very aged that the Hindu faiths now being imbibed by {{Style S-Small capitals|Olcott, Blavatsky}}, and the other Theosophists may be considered as modern inventions. | How long the Zuni Indians have maintained their strange and mystic ritual may be estimated from a single statement: When the Zuni faith was first revealed to man, one of the conditions imposed upon the patriarchs of the tribe was that they should go to the sea-side every month and bring home a quantity of sea-water for incantation purposes. As the region now known as New-Mexico was then near the borders of what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean, this was an easy task. But, as all geographers and other scientific persons very well know, the American continent has been steadily rising from the sea, ever since its foundations were laid. It has been estimated by a well-known scientific person that the continent has risen three-quarters of an inch during the last five centuries—without making any allowance of the strata of tomato cans and hoop-skirts formed along that portion of the Atlantic sea-board frequented by Summer visitors. If the student of theology will calculate the time required, on this basis, to raise from under high-water mark that portion of the American continent which lies between the Atlantic Ocean at Boston and the country of the Zunis in New-Mexico, he will ascertain with tolerable accuracy the age of the Zuni faith. And this calculation is now being worked out by several Harvard Professors, who will, in time, give the result to the world, showing that the Zuni variety of paganism is so very aged that the Hindu faiths now being imbibed by {{Style S-Small capitals|Olcott, Blavatsky}}, and the other Theosophists may be considered as modern inventions. | ||
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{{Style P-Subtitle|The Poet Passes Quietly Away in the Midst of His Family at His Historic Home.}} | {{Style P-Subtitle|The Poet Passes Quietly Away in the Midst of His Family at His Historic Home.}} | ||
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{{Style P-Subtitle|Mr. Sam Ward, His Life-Long Friend, on the Writer and the Man.}} | {{Style P-Subtitle|Mr. Sam Ward, His Life-Long Friend, on the Writer and the Man.}} | ||
A reporter of {{Style S-Small capitals|The World}} called at No. 35 Clinton place last night to see Mr. Samuel Ward, a life-long friend of Mr. Longfellow, to inquire whether he had any intelligence from Boston as to the causes of the poet’s death. | |||
“None but what I have seen in the evening papers,” answered Mr. Ward. “It is so very sudden, but not unexpected by those friends who have seen the lamp of life gradually growing dimmer and dimmer, though his spirit and genial sympathy were as bright as ever.” | “None but what I have seen in the evening papers,” answered Mr. Ward. “It is so very sudden, but not unexpected by those friends who have seen the lamp of life gradually growing dimmer and dimmer, though his spirit and genial sympathy were as bright as ever.” | ||