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lliat which we do see, looking back over a period of 5,000 
years (more or less), is man in full possession of all his godlike 
faculties not one whit inferior to his descendants of the 
present day. His religious views are greatly to be preferred to 
those of our modern Pantheists, and his scientific ideas of de- 
velopment seem in part to have anticipated those of our modern 
evolutionists, whilst surpassing them in logical clearness. The 
conception of the goose of the god Seb, which laid the egg of 
the earth,* seems peculiarly well imagined, as this animal 
has been shown by Darwin to possess great inflexibility of 
organization, and must rank high in the list of the aristocracy 
of nature. f J Nothing can be more natural than for 
a goose to lay an egg, and in this manner anthropomorphism 
is avoided entirely ! 
It is most remarkable that idolatry was not yet fully developed 
i n kgvpt. This appears in several ways. First, from the testimony 
of Manetho, that it was not till the reign of Caeachos (Kakau) of 
the Ilnd Dynasty, that the bulls Apis in Memphis and Meneus in 
Heliopolis, and the Mendesian goat, were appointed to be gods. 
Next, it is apparent that in the building of the Great Pyramid 
no symbols of idolatry were allowed to appear. 
Third, the same fact comes out in the very names of the 
rulers of .the first dynasties which read thus : — 
. 1* Mena {“ the firm or stable one . 
2. Tota ( ff the striker ”). 
3. Atot. 
4. Ata. 
5. Husapli. 
6. Mirbapen. 
7. 
8. Qebeh. 
Ilnd Dynasty. 
9. Buzar. 
10. Kakou {“the bull of bulls ”). 
11. Bainnuter. 
12. Usnas. 
13. Senta {“ the terrible >> ). 
14. Nefenta [Ra], 
15. Neferka-Sokari. 
16. Huzefa. 
17. Bubni or Zazai. 
* Lenormant, La Magie, &c., Paris, 1874, p. 94. 
t Seb, Father of the Gods. His name is often written with a goose alone. 
The sitting figure is simply the determinative sign for a god. 
