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deftined to be a King or governing man, may be difcovered by the 

 sth{ a^iov Tv^ani/idog of Euripides, or by the forma principe viro di^- 

 na, of Tacitus: But how are we to difcriminate the farmer frooi 

 the (hepherd or from the mechanic ? And I fay it was the Daemon 

 Kings of Egypt, that made this diftin£tion of men, and eftablifhed 

 a form of Pohty altogether fingular, and unknown in any other 

 country of the world except India, to which it was carried by the 

 Egyptians with their other arts. That this polity was eftablifhed 

 in Hgypt, before the expedition of Ofiris into India, I think, is 

 evident; For we cannot believe, that he eftablillxed there a polity 

 unknown in his own country, or that he could have fitted out fuch 

 an army, and carried it to fo diftant a part of the world, from a 

 country that was not highly civilized, and had not a regular form 

 of government. I hold, therefore, that as Ofiris was of the lafl: 

 of the three races of the Egyptian Dsemon Kings, the polity of E- 

 gypt was formed by the two firft races, with fome additions, per- 

 haps, that Ofiris may have made to it : For that it was not formed 

 under Menes, or any of the human Kings, is evident from all the 

 antient authors, who fpeak of Egypt. Some of thefe Kings, we 

 are told, made fome laws for the adminiflration of juftice; but no 

 author has given the leaft hint, that any of them framed a conftitu- 

 tion of government for the country. 



That the reftoration of man to his primitive ftate, which, I think, 

 I have fhown, could only be carried on in this life by the eftablifh- 

 ment of civil fociety, (hould be the peculiar care of providence, no 

 body can doubt, who believes that a wife and good God exifts. 

 And the moft natural way that this event could be brought about, 

 was by fending among men fuperior beings in the human form, 

 who were to teach them arts, and eftablifh a political fociety among 

 them. 



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