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Assyria & Egypt
Greeks
illustrating the aesthetic and intellectual
developements of our race,
in fluency, poems, the beautiful, in theory and action, ^in friendship, architecture, manners
and so on, philosophy, and much else.
Romans
—the physical, that which
guidesmakes ^a commanding and mighty race, mastership, rudeness,—that which gives a great perfection to war, conquest,
invasions,
audacity, amplitude, victory,
the majesty ^& discriminations of law, the
dignityfied of ^in attitude, speech, and
the like
?India
Where does India come in?
Before? see preceding leaf
Hebrews
the spiritual element, the indefinite,
the immortal, ^sublimity, the realm of that to which the material
tends, the realm of shadows,
meditation, the influence of the stars
in solitude at night, the ^sublime idea
of a coming sav man or saviour,
a perfect individual
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More or less, ^undoubtedly in India ^in Hindustan, Egypt, Assyria, Persia China
Phoenicia, and other lands, elder lands, Doubtless much preceded the
Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews—
But what preceded themse ^latter is hard
to tell except from by the process
of reasoning from effects to causes——Egypt, Assyria, India, Phoenicia, China.
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