dealing of the Chinese. But I know of no facts which show, that it prevails to a greater extent than in the commercial nations of the west.

NOTE (B.) P. 7.

The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Matt. xxi; 43. Here is a determinate promise, that the peculiar privileges of the Jews, should be taken from them, and given, not to the Gentiles, but to another nation; and which should better improve these inestimable advantages. It will soon, I trust, be made to appear, to unbiassed minds, that this nation is England. To such as may believe that any nation has, as yet, brought forth the things of the kingdom of God, in the emphatic sense evidently intended here, I can at present only say, that their views appear to me, exceedingly defective.

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NOTE (C.) P. 21.

During the two centuries from Augustus to Commodus, the emperor was elected by the authority of the senate and the consent of the soldiers." GIBBON. The author of the Spirit of Laws, speaking of the government at a later period, after the privilege of election was usurped by the army, says, "What in that age was called the Roman empire, was only an irregular republic."

NOTE (D.) P. 26.

It will not be deemed incredible, that an army from India, should, at this time, act in Palestine, when it is recollected, that a numerous, and, as is said, admirably appointed force, a part native troops, was transported from India to Egypt, during the invasion of that country by the French.

NOTE (E.) P. 42.

Some now attain to the age of one hundred and eighty. And so certainly as like causes produce like effects, this may be made the ordinary age of man. To doubt that hereditary constitution may be improved, to any degree of which an example can be given, is contrary to all experience and analogy. And no particular occupation or mode of life, is more conducive to longevity, than many others. Probably all may be made equally so. It would seem unsafe to assign any limit, to the practicable extension of the term of human life, other than is assigned in prophecy.

NOTE (F.) P. 46.

It is worthy of remark, that a philosopher of the nineteenth century, who will not be suspected of any undue partiality for the Scriptures, and the tenor of whose researches was peculiarly favorable to a correct judgment, arrives at the same conclusion.-"Covetousness has been made the productive cause of all the mischiefs that have desolated the earth."--Volney's Ruins, ch. viii.

NOTE (G.) P. 47.

It is affirmed, that at one of the oldest and most considerable of the Shaker villages, cases of consumption occur but one fourth as often as formerly. This is attributed, by themselves, to the use of a family medicine; but the physician will at once perceive, that it is owing to regular labor, the absence of occasional excessive exertion, and of anxiety and disappointed hopes, to wholesome food, convenient clothing and shelter, &c. It will be said that these advantages were enjoyed five and thirty years ago. But at that

time there were many cases of predisposition, induced under another system; old habits were not entirely laid aside; and, besides, the arrangements are far more perfect now than then. Those who have been added to the society since its first establishment, were mostly very young, and have had the benefit of the social arrangement, in the forming and critical periods of life, in respect of this disease.

NOTE (H.) P. 52.

In less favored regions, a large proportion of the male population might be employed abroad, for stated periods, in the various branches of national service, in the maritime service, &c. &c. This system might be carried to a far greater extent, under the social, than is possible under the existing form of society.

NOTES

TO THE COMMENT.

NOTE (A.) P. 67.

I HAD hoped to furnish, in the entire work, the most ample evidence of the latter. At present, I can only cite a passage from a prophecy of Isaiah, relating to a period immediately following the civil war. Is. 51: 18. There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

NOTE (B.) P. 71.

The date palm, supposed to be always meant in scripture, produces a farinaceous substance resembling the true sago; a rich sirup, very similar to honey; two kinds of wine, from one of which is made "strong drink ;" and a highly nourishing and pleasant fruit. A distinguished naturalist remarks, "The region of palms is the first country of the human race, and man is essentially palmivorous." The leaves, wood and fibrous bark, of the palm, are also, applied to a great variety of purposes. An extraordinary emblem of the progressive division of labor, as society advances, is afforded by the palm, in its progress from the wild to the cultivated state. In the native state, the bearing trees are fructified, as is

usual with trees of this description, (class dioecia, that is, the trees are males and females,) but not so when cultivated. Though numbers of each kind should be growing together, no fruit is produced, but by the help of artificial means. It is also worthy of notice, in the present connexion, that the palm is indigenous and abundant, in all the borders of the great desert; that faithful representative, with its scattered, and wandering, and hostile population, of the world, in the early stages of society.

NOTE (C.) P. 97.

Pompey's pillar, (as it is most commonly called,) on the shores of the Mediterranean, is another instance. It is worthy of notice perhaps, that this extraordinary column is of the Corinthian order, and differs little in size from the posts of sixty cubits. That on the capital are sculptured palm leaves, instead of the ordinary ones. That it is in Egypt, celebrated, ever since the days of the Patriarchs, for its fertility and plenty; and in sight of the city, founded by him who was renowned, above all the heroes of antiquity, for the rapidity of his conquests, as the capital of that empire, which may be regarded as the archetype, in some respects, of that far more extensive one, which is to be united under the Jewish millenial sovereigns.

NOTE (D.) P. 114.

This latter circumstance seems clearly to allude to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese; and a geographical discovery, in relation to the Old World, of sufficient importance to be specially mentioned in the Revelation, might be expected to be alluded to in this vision.