fociety may be,a neceflary fuppiement te 
the defeéts of law and order, and it we 
are to be always’ brutes and favages, a hi- 
erarchy, or a control like that of the Je- 
fuits unt Paraguay, is the moft defirable 
kind of government: bui it is impoffible 
in the prefent fituation of the world to 
incarcerate a whole people. Were I to 
afk whether roads and canals be ufeful in 
acountry, a fmile would be the anfwer 
to the queftion: but it is, it feems, a fe- 
rious gueftion in the eyes of church and 
ftate, whether the commen people thould 
receive the knowledge of reading, writing, 
and arithmetic, which, like high hae 
and internal navigation ia the cultivation 
of the foil, ferve to create and communi- 
eate focial inclinations—to bring capac 
ties into aCtion—and to reclaim the favage 
nature into an immediate and. marketable 
value. Were it the difpofition of go- 
vernment to grant as much money as is 
annually voted to maintain the beggars of 
the metropolis, in- order to make a pro- 
per eftablifhment of parochial {chools 
throughout Ireland, and particularly in 
the fouth and weft, even this would at 
leat foften and aude the rifimg genera- 
ticn; and whenever J fee the fmatleft pro- 
grefs made in any fyfiem of national edu-. 
eation, common both tocatholic and pro- 
tefiant, I fhail then begin to think this 
Leg: flative Union of the two countries 
not nade merely ior military and financial 
purpofes, but for the love of the peowles 
the union of the different orders of th 
flate, the profpects of peace, and the ite 
vention of rebellion. 
—i 
Fa the Eaitor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, > 
—~, R. HAG ER’s derivation of the word 
f ip Weiner: in p.1$5,0f your laft Num- 
ber, is too elaborate to flafh conviction on 
his readers. It would be very unfatisfac- 
tory to deduce an Egyptian word from 
Greek radicals, as Dr. Hager has obferved 
of ‘pur, fire ; and puros, “wheat: but is 
there any greater fatisfaétion in feeking a 
name for one of the. wonders of Eoypt, 
either in Arabia, Syria, or Chatdea? 
Dr. Hager rejecis the derivation of py- 
ramid from pironi, on account ‘ef the 
jota, without cdnfidering the careleis 
mode in which all Greek writers expr efs in 
their charafters the words of othér na- 
tions. Thus, according to their manner 
their founders ; 
Otfervaticns on Dr. Hager's Derivation of Pyramid. [Nov. 15 
_ It cannot “be doubted that the word 
Pharaoh, or, as fome exprefs it in our Iet- 
ters, Peroeh, of Jofephus has the fame 
defignation as the Pirém of Herodotus, or 
Peirom of Syneius. J.fephus (Act. Jud. 
vill. 6.) lays “¢ The titieot Pharach was 
applied to the kings of Egypt from Me- 
“nes to the time of Solomon, but not long 
afterward.” According to Herodotus, 
(Euterp:) there were ina fpacious temple’ 
at Thebes ** coloffal fatues of the ‘mor- 
tal* princes. of Egypt, and their totem- 
porary high-priefts; and that the ee 
informed .him, ‘each of thofe colofial 
figures was a PirOmis, defcended trom a 
Pyromis, to the humber of 341.” The 
bifhop of Cyrene ( Treatife on Providence) 
oblerves, ‘‘the father of Ofris and Ty-— 
phon was at the fame time a king, a 
pricit, and a ‘philofopher. The Egyp- 
tian hifiories aifo rank hint among the 
gods: for the Egyptians are difpofed to 
believe that many divinities reigned in 
fucceffion before their countfy was go- 
verned by. men, and before their kings 
were reckoned in a genealogical feries by 
Peirom after Peirom.” Synefius, in de- 
clining this word, makes the genitive 
cafe of it Peinsnteas 
It is now generally underftood that the 
pyramids were royal burying. places and 
monuments: would it not therefore be 
ae without paving much attention to 
the Grecian mode of wr iting foreign words, 
to purfue the general analogy, according 
to which the names of many antient cities, 
temples, and monuments, are derived from 
and, relt fatisfied that 
thofe immenfe ftruétures, the pyramids, 
were fo denominated as being the works of , 
the old Egyptian kings who were called 
Pharaoh’s, Piromis or. Piromides? If it 
be afked what is the meaning of the word 
Pirom, Herodotus informs us that in_ the 
Egyptian lariguage it exprefles “dignity 
and worth.” 
Bloomfbury fquare, evs Wee 
Of. 20, 18016 
P.S. The Greek word Obsliftos literally fige 
yifies ‘f like a fpit,” and fo clearly marks 
the thing to which it is applied, that we 
~need not furely go farther in fearch of a de- 
rivation. Should Dr. Hager ftill infift upon 
it tha 
Belus taught his friends the ufe of the fpit, 
perhaps neither you, mor I, Mr. Editor, will 
make an objection; but think ourfelves 
oblig sed to the old fage for his invention. 
of fpelling, Kho! rou, the  Perfian monarch, 
(Cymns) is Kouros; Ardfhir is Ar- 
taxerxcs ; Baal is Belus; Addir-dag is 
Atergatis; Afhur is Affyria; Aided is 
Azctus ; Japha is Jopye 5 etching is 
. 
 Apries. P 
* Hered. and Diod: Sicul. ii. t. 3. give the 
ftatement made by the Egyptian hierophants, 
that their country was gov erned for 18000 
years by gods and herves, before wy man Me 
came their kisg. 
+ Bel is the radical of obelos, and that 
