last we are brought to the history of the age in which we live;
and finally most remarkable affinities of language put the
finishing touch to the mass of proofs which can be gathered along
all these different lines. In this magic circle countries so
remote from one another as Ireland and Greece, Egypt and India,
Palestine and Persia, are brought into close contiguity--a
similar tradition, and even a similar nomenclature, unite the
mysterious builders of the Great Pyramid with the equally
mysterious builders of the Round Towers of Ireland--and the Great
Pyramid itself, perhaps antedating the call of Abraham,
re-appears as the official seal of the United States; while
tradition traces the crowning-stone in Westminster Abbey back to
the time of Solomon's temple and even earlier. For the most part
the erewhile wanderers are now settled in their destined homes,
but the Anglo-Saxon race--the People of the Corner-Stone--are
still the pioneers among the nations, and there is something
esoteric in the old joke that when the North Pole is reached a
Scotchman will be found there. And not least in the chain of
evidence is the link afforded by a tribe who are wanderers still,
the Gipsies with their duplicate of the Pyramid in the pack of
cards--a volume which has been called "The Devil's Picture Book"
by those who know it only in its misuse and inversion, but which
when interpreted in the light of the knowledge we are now
gaining, affords a signal instance of that divine policy by which
as St. Paul says, God employs the foolish things of this world to
confute the wise; while a truer apprehension of the Gipsies
themselves indicates their unmistakable connection with that race
who through all its wanderings has ever been the guardian of the
Stone.