. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. much as possible out of view, froma very pardonable unwillingness to bring for-ward into broad light a matter so disparagingto the civilization of a people whom he hasmade it the business of his life to comprehend,and—from the influence of that devoted ness * Descript. Gon. de Thebes, in Descript. de IEgypte, torn,iii. p. 198. to a single object—to extol and magnify. Inthis pursviit we sympathise; but not being asyet far gone in the Egyptomania, we have feltat liberty on a former occasion,* as now,
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. much as possible out of view, froma very pardonable unwillingness to bring for-ward into broad light a matter so disparagingto the civilization of a people whom he hasmade it the business of his life to comprehend,and—from the influence of that devoted ness * Descript. Gon. de Thebes, in Descript. de IEgypte, torn,iii. p. 198. to a single object—to extol and magnify. Inthis pursviit we sympathise; but not being asyet far gone in the Egyptomania, we have feltat liberty on a former occasion,* as now, tobring forward what this distinguished anti-quarian would wish to withdraw from notice,and to unveil what he would desire to reader will not be surprised that in hisample description of these tombs,t the onlymention of these murderous scenes is in theslight and apologetic notice—that they appearto represent human sacrifices, but probablyrefer to the initiation into the higher mysteries,by the supposed death and regeneration of tlieneophyte. We shall not add anything to what. [4. Human Sacrifice.] • See before, at p. 390. \ Topography of Thebes/ chap, ii. Chap. VI.] NOTES TO ISRAEL, from 931 , to 895 585 we have already said (p. SCO) against this mostunsatisfactory principle of interpretation. Ifit were true in this case, we should expect tosee the persons slain in one part of the repre-sentation resuscitated in another—but where isthis ? As a suitable appendage to this note, wehave introduced (fig. 4) one of those constantlyrepeated representations of the wholesale immo-lation of captives before the gods, which so oftenoccur in the Egyptian sculptures. With refer-ence to them generally, we have nothing to addhere to what has been said before (pp. 390,391). But with respect to the particular ex-ample now given, it will be observed that the king (for he is a king) has mounted the priestlymitre, to indicate that he is acting as a priest—that is, offe
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