Traces of the Elder Faiths in Ireland, a Folklore Sketch, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Traces of the Elder Faiths in Ireland, a Folklore Sketch, Vol. 1 of 2: A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian TraditionsA sarcastic writer lately advised authors treating on Irish subjects not to omit commencing their essays from the starting point of the Biblical Deluge, so that no fact, direct or collateral, in the matter under consideration, might escape notice. Critics do not, as a rule, confine themselves between too narrow limits, but the above recommendation, though good in its way, does not give a wide enough field to work on, at least when Ancient Erin itself is in question. The liberty, therefore, is taken of ignoring the well-meant advice, of exceeding the prescribed limit, and the subject is opened somewhere in the early Glacial, or perhaps in the Tertiary period. The writer has, in fact, placed himself in the unenviable position of the advocate who, opening his speech with the sentence, Before the birth of the world, was cut short by the Judge who exclaimed, Do you not-think that we might pass on to the Deluge?Many Continental writers throw back the origin of man to even geologically distant ages, but evidences of this early existence of our race rest on such fragile proofs that they are, for the present, regarded with scientific scepticism by most English authorities. On this subject the late Professor Huxley observes, that evidence has been adduced in favour of man's existence in the Pliocene or even in the Miocene epoch. It does not satisfy me, but I have no reason to doubt that the fact may be so, nevertheless.Speculations on the. Great Ice Age would also, at first sight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.