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Oil jtfT l- PREFACE. The learn of errors is usually just a little less significant than the research of fact. The background of the human brain in its development from lack of know-how in the direction of wisdom, may still let us know the blunders into which it has occasionally wandered, in addition to its steps within the correct direction. We flip certainly with extra excitement to study the assets from which the area has received any of its precious truths, within the desire of there discovering a few extra wisdom that may be both invaluable; whereas for our blunders, as long as we're unwilling to recognize them to be error, we too frequently close our eyes, and refuse to be shewn their beginning. The Emperor Marcus A ntoninus, in his philosophical paintings, mentions different tutors and associates from whom he won his sturdy conduct, and people perspectives of lifestyles which he mainly valued; yet although we needs to consider that he was once conscious of a few failings in his personality, he doesn't let us know to which of his partners he owed them. And so it really is with the advantages of civilization, arts, and faith ;and additionally with the evils of superstition. glossy Europe quite simply recognizes what percentage merits it bought fromE ome, from Greece, and from Judea, yet has been keen to overlook how a lot of its superstition got here fromE
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They dutifully set out food for the use of these dead relations in the neighbourhood of the tombs, and their doing so was carefully mentioned on their own funeral tablets as an act which, like the worship of the gods, they had not neglected in their lifetime. The sculpture which shows the dead man on his knees presenting his offerings to the gods, shows him standing to present the same offerings to his ancestors. When he brings fire and water to the one, he does the same to the others. Such food would soon be devoured by the beasts and birds of the desert; and in the inscriptions Anubis the jackal is called the devourer of what is set out for the dead.
Those of lower rank may have had the twelve smaller cells on one Fig. 37. side of the inner courtyard, while the chief priests may have dwelt in the larger rooms on the opposite side of this courtyard (see Fig. 38). When the outer courtyard was added to the same temple, fifteen more rather larger cells were built within it for the priests' dwellings. Thus, while the cells for the priests belonging to the Memnonium, in the middle of the city of Thebes, were outside the walls of the temple, in this temple at Philæ, situated at the frontier of the kingdom, the cells were more cautiously placed within the walls of the fortified building.
70, p. 51, is one of the Cabeiri gods, and became among the Greeks, with but little change in figure and name, the dog Cerberus. The goddess Thmei, or truth, with the ostrich head in the same figure, became the Greek Themis, or goddess of justice. Those who are less in earnest are usually led in their opinions by the more grave and serious. Herodotus tells us that though he did not believe much that was told him, on these matters, yet that he thought them too serious to relate in his book. And thus the Greeks, as soon as Egypt was open to them by the rise of a race of kings at Sais, who favoured Greek intercourse, readily copied the more solemn of the Egyptian superstitions.