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Of the government of Egypt. — That government very a'ntienty — as 

 antient as the days of jofeph ; — no other regular government then 

 on earthy except in India : — But that government ■derived from 

 Egypt. — All govermnents confijl of the governors and the governed. 

 — Of the governors in Egypt — The government the remonurchical, 

 ivhich the Egyptians thought the bejl government. — The King in 

 Egypt had only the executive povuer. — A higher clafs of men ivere 

 his Counfellors. — To them ivere intriijled the religion of the coun- 

 try, and arts and fciences. — The excellency of every man, in every 

 art and fcicncCy mufi depend upon his natural genius and his educa- 

 tion^ — of thefe tivo the fir fl is principal. — Nature mu/l lay the foun- 

 dation of excelling in all arts, — Of the difference betivixt the phi- 

 lofophy of the Egyptians and that of the Greek philofophers, as to 

 the natural dijhnclion of men. — The Greek philofophers thought 

 that education alone was fufficient to make a good governing man, 

 — The Priefis of Egypt ivere the governing men there. — The name 

 ivhich they gave themfelves : — They ivere kept quite diflinfl from the 

 refi of the people, — had the cufiody of religion, and the care of arts 

 and fciences. — The/e tivo nccefjarily connected. — Without havinT 

 cultivated his intelieclual faculties, . no man can have a jiifl idea of 

 fupreme intelligence. — The rea/on for this. — Further proofs that 

 there is a natural difference of men. — A great diflintlion of men in 

 India in antient times. — This is fill to be fcen there. — This dij- 

 tinciion of men every ivhere to be found , — even in the neiv df co- 

 vered World in the South Sea, — No do^rine more abfurd than that 

 of the natural eiuality of men. — The w.ojl pernicious doclrine ivhen 

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