T44 A NTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



CHAP. V. 



Of the invention of Clothes. — Thefe not nece/fary in the Natural 

 Life — The firfl Clothing among Men ivere Skins. — The country 

 of Egypt maintaining fo many Men., could not likeivife maintain fs 

 many Bea/Is as zvere neceffary for furni/hing Skins to Cloth fo ma- 

 ny People Therefore Clothing by Linen invented ; — alfo by 



Cloth made of Wool ;— for both theje Clothings., the Arts of Spin- 

 ning and Weaving ivere neceffary. — The ufe of Linen ivent from 

 Egypt to fcnv countries, — To the Egyptians therefore ive onve not 

 only our Bread, our Wine, and our Beer, but our Cloths. — The 

 Egyptians muf have difcovered the ufe of Fire for the praciice of 

 thcfe Arts. — This difcovery not made by all nations in the firfl ages 

 of Civility. — Of the Art of Building invented in Egypt : — Me- 

 tallurgy neceffary for the pra£life of that Art. — The Egyptians 

 made the fubjeB of their art, not only every thing on the earth, 

 and in the air and ivater, but "what ivas in the boivels of the 



earth. The ivay that Men ivere fuppUed nvith inflruments of 



peircinur hard fibflances, before the invejition of Metals. — Divi- 

 fion of Time into certain portions neceffary in Civilifed Life. — The 

 fir J} divifton of time into Days, that is, the interval from one rifing 

 of the Sun to his rftng again. — The next portion of Time, ohferved 

 bv Men, vj as from one neiv moon to another, called f om thence a 

 Month. — This the only divfion of Time knoivn to barbarous nations. 

 —The Solar Year firjl difcovered in Egypt. — That year, as firfl ufed 

 by the Greeks and Romans, very irregular. — The Romans got the 

 irregularity of /heir year corrected from Egypt. — What ivas m'ant- 

 ing to make that correction pcrjetlly accurate, fupplied by Pope 

 Gregory X'll.— 0/ the divijton of time into W:cks. — This invent- 

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