asci:nding the: great pyramid 



"Accuracy equal to optician's work, but on a scale of acres instead of inches, is scarcely 

 what one expects in buildings reared nearly 5,000 years ago. but the huge blocks of the Great 

 Pyramid, 2,300,000 of them, weighing on an average of 2^ tons apiece, while some run to 

 40 and 50 tons, are squared, fitted, and leveled with an accuracy which puts to shame our 

 best modern work, and compels our respect not only for the strength, but for the skill, of 

 these mighty builders before the Lord" (see page 973). 



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