CONTENTS. 



«d the religion of the country, and arts and rdences.— The excellency of every man. 

 In every art and fcience, muft depend upon his natural genius and his education,— of 

 thefe two the firft is principal. — Nature muft lay the foundation of excelling in all 

 arts.— Of the difference betwixt the philofophy of the Egj-ptians and that of the 

 Gieek philofophers, as to the natural diftinftion of men.— The Greek philofophers 

 thought that education alone was fufficient to make a good governing man. — The 

 Priefts of Egypt were the governing men there. — The name which they gave them- 



- felves : ^They were kept quite diftinct from the reft of the people, — had the cuftody 



of religion, and the care of arts and fciences. — ihefe two neceflarily connefted. — 

 Without having cultivated his intelletftual faculties, no man can have a juft idea of 

 fupreme intelligence. — The reafon for this. — Further proofs that tliere is a natural 

 difference of men. — A great diftinflion of men in India in antient times. — ^This is 

 ftjU to be feen there. — This diftin£lion of men every where to be found, — even in 

 the new difcovered World in the South Sea. — No doctrine more abfurd than that of 

 the natural equality of men. — The moft pernicious doftrine when applied to govern- 

 ment.— Other claffes of men in Egypt, fet apart and diftinguiflied from the reft.— 

 And firft the military clafs. — Some obfervations upon that clafs. — They belong to the 

 2d order of men mentioned by Hefiod. — ^The other claffes confift of men who are 

 neceffiiry in every ftate, being fuch as provide the neccffaries of life for the people. 

 ■■^iuDifference betwixt Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, as to the divifion of them. — 

 To make the diftin£tion of men among the inferior claffes, a matter of great difficul- 

 ty. It was the work of the Daemon Kings in Egypt, who formed the polity of E- 



gypt. This polity formed before the expedition of Ofiris into India, — ^not the work 



of any of the human Kings. — Providence interpofed to promote the progrefs of men 

 'tbwards their recovery from their fallen ftate, by the improvement of their intellec- 

 tual faculties.— This he did among the Jews, to whom he gave a law and conftitu- 

 tion, by his Angels and by Mofes. This he did alfo in Eg)'pt, but not in fo fignal 

 ' ' manner, as among the Jews.— tt was proper that a difference fhould be made be- 

 twixt the two nations. — Of the education in Egypt. — There the beft education pqf- 

 fible; for it was domeftic,— all arts and fciences there hereditary, and continually in- 

 creafingfrom generation to generation. — This education compared with the education 

 amono us, and the education among the Greeks and Romans. — Nature and Educa- 

 tion never feparated among the Egyptians. — ^Where that feparation is made, the 

 ■ charafters of men can never be perfect. — Of the manner of living of the Egyptian 

 • Priefts. — This too qualified them to excel in arts and fciences. — In this likewife very 

 " different from m.en of fcience in other countries. — It was therefore neceffary, that 

 ^fliey fhotJld excel the Greeks and every other nation in arts and' philofophy.— The 

 "TEgyptians had riot among them the arts of poetry and rhetoric— Nor did they cul- 

 ^Vivate mufic fo much ns the Greeks did, as it was no art of pleafure among them.— 

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