Egypt
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Egypt, (and probably much of
the Ass sentiment of
the Assyrian empire)
represents that phase
of developement, advanced
childhood, full of belief,
rich and divine enough,
standing amazed and
awed before the mystery
of life.—nothing more
wonderful than life,
even in an a hawk
a bull or a cat—
^—the masses of the people
reverent of priestly
and kingly authority.
We cannot go All the hitherto modern cen-
turies The ^definite historyand of the world
We cannot go back
farther than Egypt—
and, in with [illegible] and
have we indeed gone
on much farther than
what Egypt has left—
—even the last two
thousand
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in many the most important
particulars the average
spirit of man ^except in These States has
not gone a single one
step forward of
the spirit of ancient
Egypt.—
India, represents
meditation, oriental
rhapsody, ^passiveness, as curious
antique schoolmasters
teaching, ^of wise precepts— —and is the
beginning of feudality,
or the institution of
the lord and the
serf—much of the
modern late‑age lord, or fine
gentleman, dates ba
so nice and delicate,
dates af back to the
oldest Indies. Hindustan
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Egypt, (and probably much of
the turies The ^definite history
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in 