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not go to hidia to learn civility and arts; — thefe they mnjl have had 

 before^ — and the Indians mnJl have learned them from them. — This 

 proved by monuments of black men, with woolly hair, to be feen in 

 India; and alfo in China and Japan. — Proof that the Egyptian 

 Religion, as well as arts, was carried to all the countries of the 

 Eajl as well as to India. — Language alfo carried from Egypt to In- 

 dia. — a language of art, the work of fcience and philofophy; in 

 which analyfis is very much pradifed. 



FROM what has been faid In the preceding chapter it is evident, 

 that the wonderful conformity betwixt the Egyptian and Indi- 

 an PoUty, Cuftoms, Manners, and Opinions, could not have happen- 

 ed by accident ; and, I think, it is equally ceitain, that each of the 

 nations could not have been the original inventors of thofe things, 

 (fome of them fmgular and unknown to all other nations), but that 

 the one of them muft have copied them from the other: So that the 

 only queflion is, Which is the copy, and which the original ? 



Another thing, I think, is alfo certain, that there was no third 

 nation upon the face of the earth, from which they could have taken 

 thofe fingular inftitutions and cuftoms. And it likewife appears 

 to me to be equally certain, that fuch a perfedl fimilitude in all thofe 

 things I have mentioned, could not have arifen from any trade or 

 commerce betwixt the two nations. For, in Xhcfrjl place,, we know 

 that the Egyptians carried on no trade with any nation : And, 2dly, 

 fuch trade or commerce never could have produced fo entire a con- 

 formity of things, fo effential to the conftitution and government of 

 every countiy, as thofe I have mentioned ; but there muft have 

 been a communication between the two nations more intimate than 

 any trade could produce; — In fhort, the two nations muft have mix- 

 ed and lived fome time together in the fame country. Now, the 



Indians 



