Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations
John Francis Arundell, Baron Arundell of Wardour
Essays
Book language: English
460 pages
A collection of essays from 1872 linking tradition, mythology, and the law of nations. It discusses themes such as natural law, chronology, the Deluge, Assyrian mythology, and debates on international law. It is of interest for the history of ideas, comparative mythology, and early theories of international law.
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TRADITION PRINCIPALLY WITH REFERENCE TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EDINBURGH AND LONDON TRADITION PRINCIPALLY WITH REFERENCE TO MYTHOLOGY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS. BY LORD ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR. LONDON: BURNS, OATES, & COMPANY, 17 & 18 PORTMAN STREET, AND 63 PATERNOSTER ROW. 1872. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE PREFACE, ix
MEMOIR OF COLONEL GEORGE MACDONELL,
C.B.,
xix
I.
THE LAW OF NATIONS,
1
II.
THE LAW OF NATURE,
20
III. PRIMITIVE LIFE,
26
IV. CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF
VIEW OF TRADITION,
55
V.
CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF
VIEW OF SCIENCE,
72
VI. PALMER ON EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY,
92
VII. THE TRADITION OF THE HUMAN RACE,
105
VIII. MYTHOLOGY,
157
IX. ASSYRIAN MYTHOLOGY,
182
X.
THE TRADITION OF NOAH AND THE
DELUGE,
210
XI. DILUVIAN TRADITIONS IN AFRICA AND
AMERICA,
242
XII. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON TRADITION,
283
XIII. NOAH AND THE GOLDEN AGE,
323
XIV. SIR H. MAINE ON THE LAW OF NATIONS,
338
XV. THE DECLARATION OF WAR,
386
PREFACE.
I shall have no hope of conveying to the reader, within the narrow limits of a preface, any fuller idea of the purport of this work than its title expresses; and as the chapters are necessarily interdependent, I can indicate no short-cut in the perusal by which this information can be obtained.
I venture to think that those who are interested in the special matters
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