VARIOUS SUBJECTS, JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. M.DCCC.LVIII. iffiD. TABLE OF CONTENTS. On Carn Goch, in Caermarthenshire On the Early Intercourse between the Eastern and Western World, and On One Source of the Non-Hellenic Portion of the Latin Language On the Aristotelian Expression, “META TA ØYZIKA" A Selection from certain Archæological Papers, written by the Arch- Extracts from Archæological Letters of the Archdeacon of Cardigan 47 111 135 . PREFACE. HAVING just published a volume of discourses "On the Unity of God's Will as revealed in Scripture; and on the Necessity laid upon all Christian Communities of acknowledging such Will as the only Rule of Life, with special Reference to God's Dealings with Christianized Britain,”1 I publish the several papers contained in the present volume, as embodying my views of the non-scriptural evidence of the same truths, as deducible from documents and monuments, both historical and prehistorical, which I have had an opportunity of examining. In the dedication to the Lord Bishop of London of the above-mentioned volume, I have given the following statement of my views upon the subject: "I hold that the first man, as an intellectual, moral, and spiritual being, had nothing to learn from experience; that, as a labourer in the struggle against matter, he had almost everything to learn; and that the triumphs of man over the material world, and which are daily in a greater or less degree obtained, will never give him, individually, more intellectual, moral, and spiritual knowledge, than was possessed by the first Adam; that a school opposite to mine expects new teaching to be discovered on this same field from modern experience; and that the spirit of the age is indeed a light 1 London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place; 1857. |