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MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1901,

towers aver all che. He seems God SIX THOUSAND YEARS

·AGO.

among mon, and was so regarded. A Divine soul was infuent info him at birth, which awoke to full self-conscious-,

In 'The Dawn of Civilisation Fro fessor Maspero carries his readers beness when he becasin King. As he yond a date which, aot so long ago, was possessed a double nature, so hë bara u double raine, which, in fact, is one of accepted no that of the Creation of the World. The books is a revised transia the difliculties in making out the lists of the party colors of Egypt. His statue, tion, by Mr. M. L. McClure, of the first

was placed in a temple, where it retir volume that on the origin of Egypt and

ed worship, prophesied, and fulfilled Chalden, which is quite separable from

all the fanctions of a Divine being, both the other two of his Histoire Ancienne. des Pouples de l'Orient Classique. It buring his life and after he had rejoined in the tomb his micestors who existed before him, and now reposed impassivaly. within the depths of their pyrands. By virtue of his double nature, he was

No. 1 WELLINGTON ST. first appeared in English about six yours ago, but in the fourth edition which has been prepared under the auspices of Pro- fessor Sayce, and just issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Know- priest gir excellencs the mediator be- fedge some important sections have been the Gods and his people, and his entirely re-written Ixtile, Trule over the latter was absolute. The Dawn of Civilisation, is aptly indicative pleasures of life were not Jacking. He was lodged in magnificent palace, with of what has made this reconstruction as many wives and concubines në he necessary. In regard both to gf desired, and was waited on by troops of and Chaldes, and especially the former, the last few years might be compared to weeks in the Spring-time. Hardly a decade ago the earliest phasn af Egyptian

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servants, each with his special duties. One wife was regarded as the actual Queen, and right of Succession belong.

to her children. The sons of the others were places in charge of Districts, the daughters given in marringe to powerful nobles. Thus, probably, in- trigues wered common in the Egyptian Court, as in others farther East, but when the Pharach was both diplomatic and masterful. Le could keep the peace by observing the maxim divide et supera.

Notwithstanding the delegation of authority and the fact that the bureau- cratic side of life was as fully developed in Egypt as in any country of Modern Europe, the Pharaohi, as holding in bis everything, must

hands the threads of

often have been worked as bard us o Constitutional Monarch at the present day. Still, be found time for travel about his dominions, for ocensional distant

statue, there a column, and, perchance, ou that wall, some sculptured table Yet a week or two, and there is light. enough to distinguish many details, and even to begin reading some of the in scriptions. When Professor Maspero first worte it was still doubtful whether For Mones, the traditional founder of the First Dynasty, was more than a mythical DENNYS & BOWLEY, personage, and practically nothing cer

Solicitor, Supreme Court.

tain was known either about this or its Hongkong: September 26, 1901.

2007 two immediate successors. During the last three years, thanks to the work of Professor Petrie and bis coadjutore at Military expeditions and for the plen Abydos, the tombs-though many of

sures of the chase. In all these phases their precious records had been ignorant-

as priest, warrior, ar hanter of big game ly destroyed have been minutely scrutas giving interviews to his Ministers, 2481 inised. The old chroniclers were, it ap

receiving Embassies or suppliants, dis- pears, right in the main. Menus was an

penting justice, and ordering punish- historical personage; a list, probably ments, in Royal pageants and banquets, complete, of the first two Dynasties hand in domestic life-wa ase this one been drawn up, and it is now known

supreme figure of Egyptain affairs. But- that there were Kings of Egypt even benut him alone. Tombs also show us the

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the scribes and Government officials, rocks, sculptures, weapons, jewellery, the soldiers, the fishermen and sailors, and personal ornaments in se cases the farmers, and the peasantry-they even coffins and mummics, belonging to these remote ages, ive been recovered, so that we can now form fairly correct idea how life went on in the Valley of the Nile four thousand years before the

Christian era.

make up one great picture-book of the history of Egypt, the tale of which be gins much more than six thousand years go. Not the least surprising is the perfection to which Art had advanced at this early date. Many vasca~~and The Hebrew Fatriarchs, when they bowls, worked from some dieritic OF caine down into Egypt, found there n sinirly hard rock, and dating from civilisation which was already venerable even the First or Second Dynasty, are The Spain, the three Pyramids of of great banty. Some of the statues of Gizeh, and othes monuments wore not stone and wood, frons the Third to the less ancient, even in the days of Abra Fifth Dynastiesa perind of about six ham, then are the Arch of Titus and hundred years, ending about üfty-five. the Flavian Amphitheatreat the present centuries ago such as that of the Sit day. Joseph was Prime Minister of a ting Scribe now in the Lonyre, are State in which the Government was admirable in execution. In fact, sculp highly organised; and civilisation was ture afterwards cams.conventional in in inany, respects mora advanced than in Egypt, and its triumphs were those of Republiin Rome. The wisdom of tho the engineer atlier than the artist. Egyptains, though our own age would. But we must not forget that there was receive mach of it with a smile, was a another dawn, in o yét greater valley very real thing in the youth of Moses Six thousand years ago, or at the upoch of the Third Dynasty, the power of Egypt made itself felt beyond the Valley

that of the joint steams of the Tigris. and Euphrates The first gleans uppese in Chaldes n little later, so far as we at present know, than in Lower Egypt, or,

of the Nile, where, and for the seran at any rate, the day does not brighten. Dynasties that followed, the centre of here quite se soon, for the first date the State was at Memphis Its work which can be approximately fixed

about fifty-seven centuries ago. That men mine for turquoise and copper in Sinai, though not without disturbance (however, was long after the beginning. from the nomads of the Perinsul of civilisation. Probably for several

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expeditions were incillents of Eastern build and sculpture, could work in frontier life in Egypt, as they are with metals and make pottery, had acquired ourselves in some parts of Judic. But the art of writing and kept records, Snofrul, one of the inost warlike of the while two totally distinct pres, out of Kings, read the nomada a lesson, and Semitic, the other, perhaps, of Menge- protected the Eastern frontier of the delta by a chaff of fortresses. Bis reliefs in the Wady Maghura com memorate his prowess, and his tomb is filmost certainly beneath in pyramid of Merry Deep as his body we laji in good in its rocky chamber, it has no escaped the spoiler who centuries,ngo broke up Lis mummy, settered the fragments of us con da che ground and off the stone sarcoplingus ---

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