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when your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.| 323 contd

    But what is far more striking, the number unclear was with the people who set up these monuments a number of perfection, as it was with the people of India, Arabia, Egypt, & the Hebrews, & as it is with the Arabians & HIndoos to this day. There is no obvious cause in nature, or in natural history, for determining mankind to seven, as the number of perfection, more than to any other number. The seven days of the week is a cycle of positive institution, & so is the worship of the seven planets. This idea in America is a derivative one, emanating from a common source with others of the same family & connections. That common source is India, where it has been from the earliest periods of the world. From hence it was carried by emigrant tribes to Gothland & Scandinavia, where the days were classed into sevens, & called by the name of their Deities, the first of which being the sun, they called Sunday; the second, being the moon, they called Moonsday, or Monday; the next, Tuisto, the most ancient deity of the Germans & Scandinavians, ]]unclear]] name to Tuisbday, or Tuesday. They have a God Woden, Woden's day; another called Thor, hence Thor's