24 The Great Pyramid df Egypt. [January, 



pictured denizens to uphold the oppression of, or insist on 

 obedience to, the mandates of a tyrant king. 



This Great Pyramid case is indeed in every way a 

 challenge from primeval time to the whole world since then, 

 past and present, and to every nation that has yet borne 

 empire-rule in the earth, from Nebuchadnezzar's, of Babylon, 

 to that of the present King William of Prussia. But the 

 one element, however, of height alone, in stone architecture, 

 may form our best and speediest ground of comparison, be- 

 cause height immediately tests the strength of foundations, 

 goodness of material, correctness of work, and steady heads 

 of the builders ; while it makes short work, too, of all 

 historical architecture, for there is nothing left behind by 

 any recorded nation of antiquity that can compete with our 

 modern Christian cathedrals. Therefore let us compare the 

 chief of them in height with the Great Pyramid. 



Inches. 



St. Paul's in London has a height of . 4322 



. St. Peter's at Rome 5184 



Strasburg Cathedral 5616 



But the Great Pyramid, either, . . . 5819 



or, . . . 5835 



Had the Cathedral of Ulm or that of Cologne ever been 

 finished; according to the plans drawn out for them on 

 paper, they would have been higher than the Great 

 Pyramid ; but their architects were unable to finish them, 

 and they are actually very much lower. And again, had the 

 steeple of old St. Paul's, in London, not been made of wood, 

 it would both have competed for height of stone architecture 

 with the Great Pyramid successfully, and would not have 

 been burned to ashes by L lightning in so few years after it was 

 erected. 



But Cologne Cathedral, I am told rather angrily by 

 Prussians, is going to be completed; for their hero king, 

 anxious to have a grand Roman Catholic Cathedral in the 

 Germany of which he expects presently to be crowned 

 Emperor, and able now at the sword's point to extract as 

 large requisitions as he pleases from prostrate France, will 

 not stop short of the original design : and then, how will it 

 fare with the Great Pyramid ? Will not Cologne Cathedral 

 of the German Fatherland, they ask, then step into the 

 Pyramid's place as the greatest architectural wonder on earth ? 



Not in any degree, unless it shall also exceed every other 

 building of its own day, by as large a proportionate amount 

 as the Great Pyramid did its contemporaries. 



