178 THE BIRTHPLACE OP ANCIENT RELIGIONS AND CIVILIZATION. 



bounds specified were not exceeded. There is also decided evidence 

 to the fact that, with Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans, Chaldaeans, 

 Arabians, Phoenicians and Syrians, whose respective countries fall with- 

 in these limits, there then dwelt Persians and Indians ', Lydians, Cap- 

 padocians, Phrygians and other peoples, who afterwards colonized Asia 

 Minor; Greeks and Italians; Moors and Carthaginians; as well as the 

 ancestors of the German and Celtic peoples." During the long period 

 lying between the Dispersion of Babel and the Exodus of Israel, the 

 common literature, religion, art, language — the common civilization, in 

 fact, — of the world had time to develope itself in Egypt and the adja- 

 cent countries. Egypt was the cradle of civilization, not the teacher, 

 but the school of the whole world. Of humanity, as of humanity's 

 divine representative, the saying of the Father is true, " Out of Egypt 

 have I called my son." ^^° 



119 LenormaDt and Chevalier, i., 246, 249, 255, 259, 260, &c. 



120 Hosea, xi., 1. Mattliew, ii., 15; 



