" This comparative process is precisely what has been
adopted by M.L. Petit Radel in his new theory upon the origin of Greece.
"Not satisfied with the mythological equivocation and contradictory
statements which till now have perplexed the question, after a residence
of ten years this learned man returns with a new theory, which would
destroy all our received ideas, and carry the civilisation and cradle of
the Greeks much beyond the time and place that have till now been
supposed. It is their very architecture that M. Petit Radel
interrogates, and its passive testimony serves as a basis to his system.
He has visited, compared, and meditated on the unequivocal vestiges of
more than one hundred and fifty antique citadels, altogether neglected
by the Greek and Roman authors. Their form and construction serve him,
with the aid of ingenious reasoning, to prove that Greece was civilised
a long time before the arrival of the Egyptian colonies. He does not
despair of tracing back the descent of the Greeks to the Hyperborean
nations, always by the analogy of their structures, which, by a singular
identity, are found also among the Phoenicians.
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