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Excerpt from The Old Egyptian Faith The six lectures which compose the present volume were the first that were instituted at the Collège de France in terms of the Michonis endowment, and were delivered in 1905. Their subject - the religion of the old Egyptians - covers too wide a field and raises too many different questions to permit us to make a complete study of it in so small a compass, or to enter into all the discussions to which this religion has given rise. I have accordingly selected six principal topics, the development of which appeared to me to be likely to afford us a general idea of the Egyptian religion, in spite of numerous omissions which the shortness of the time at my disposal rendered inevitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.