"Only the things out of reach remain as they came to us." The Egyptian bowed, and proceeded: "Yet a little further, O my brethren, a little further, before I come to myself.

What we go to will seem all the holier of comparison with what is and has been.

The records show that Mizraim found the Nile in possession of the Ethiopians, who were spread thence through the African desert; a people of rich, fantastic genius, wholly given to the worship of nature.

The Poetic Persian sacrificed to the sun, as the completest image of Ormuzd, his God; the devout children of the far East carved their deities out of wood and ivory; but the Ethiopian, without writing, without books, without mechanical faculty of any kind, quieted his soul by the worship of animals, birds, and insects, holding the cat sacred to Re, the bull to Isis, the beetle to Pthah.

A long struggle against their rude faith ended in its adoption as the religion of the new empire.
Then rose the mighty monuments that cumber the river-bank and the desert--obelisk, labyrinth, pyramid, and tomb of king, blent with tomb of crocodile.