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Excerpt from Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom The study Of error is Often only a little less important than the study of truth. The history of the human mind in its progress from ignorance towards knowledge, Should tell us the mistakes into which it has sometimes wandered, as 'well as its steps in the right path. We turn indeed with more pleasure to review the sources from which the world has gained any Of its valuable truths, in the hope of there finding some further knowledge which may be equally valuable while for our errors, so long as we are unwilling to acknowledge them to be errors, we too Often shut our eyes, and refuse to be shewn their origin. The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, in his philosophical work, mentions the several tutors and friends from whom he gained his good habits, and those views of life which he chiey valued; but though we must suppose that he was aware Of some failings in his character, he does not tell us to which of his companions he owed them. And so it is with the benefits of civilization, arts, and religion and also with the evils Of superstition. Modern Europe readily acknowledges how many benefits it received from Rome, from Greece, and from J udea, but has been willing to forget how much Of its superstition came from Egypt. 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 hi