202.
[216-1] Ubi sup., p. 207.
[216-2] The Scandinavians believed the universe had been destroyed nine
times:--
Ni Verdener yeg husker,
Og ni Himle,
says the Voluspa (i. 2, in Klee, _Le Deluge_, p. 220). I observe some
English writers have supposed from these lines that the Northmen believed
in the existence of nine abodes for the blessed. Such is not the sense of
the original.
[216-3] At least this is the doctrine of one of the Shastas. The race, it
teaches, has been destroyed four times; first by water, secondly by
winds, thirdly the earth swallowed them, and lastly fire consumed them
(Sepp., _Heidenthum und Christenthum_, i. p. 191).
[217-1] Echevarria y Veitia, _Hist. de la Nueva Espana_, lib. i. cap. 4,
in Waitz.
[217-2] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, iii. p. 495.
[218-1] The contrary has indeed been inferred from such expressions of
the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes as, "that which hath been, is now,
and that which is to be, hath already been" (chap.
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