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which to a superficial observer might lead to the supposition that the former were then unknown ; but a close exanidnation ot the sculptures shows the fallacy of such a conclusion, since blowing tubes are also figured long after the reign of Thothmes in whose time bellows were certainly common.^ Again, on the last day of the feast of Tabernacles, the Jews were allowed by rabbinical precepts tu light one fire from another, but not to strike new fire from stone or metal, nor to quench it, althoug...h to save their goods, ** nor to blow it with bellowes, but with a reede"^ Now a stranger, having an imperfect know- ledge of Jewish customs, upon witnessing fires thus blown would, in some parts of the world, be very apt to conclude that they had no bellows. And again, if we had not a proof that our domestic bellows was known to the Romans, we might have inferred fix>m Pliny's account of statuaries and painters representing individuals blowing fires with their mouths, that artifi- cial instruments for the purpose were then unknown.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
which to a superficial observer might lead to the supposition that the former were then unknown ; but a close exanidnation ot the sculptures shows the fallacy of such a conclusion, since blowing tubes are also figured long after the reign of Thothmes in whose time bellows were certainly common.^ Again, on the last day of the feast of Tabernacles, the Jews were allowed by rabbinical precepts tu light one fire from another, but not to strike new fire from stone or metal, nor to quench it, althoug...h to save their goods, ** nor to blow it with bellowes, but with a reede"^ Now a stranger, having an imperfect know- ledge of Jewish customs, upon witnessing fires thus blown would, in some parts of the world, be very apt to conclude that they had no bellows. And again, if we had not a proof that our domestic bellows was known to the Romans, we might have inferred fix>m Pliny's account of statuaries and painters representing individuals blowing fires with their mouths, that artifi- cial instruments for the purpose were then unknown.
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