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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt:...that the Egyptians have by an unfailing piety served God in vain, and their holy religion will become void; for the divinity will return from earth to heaven, Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was the seat of the divinity will be void of religion. For when strangers shall possess this kingdom religion will be neglected, and laws made against piety and divine worship, with punishment on those who favour it. Then this holy seat Ch. Xiv. will be full of idolatry, idols' temples, and dead men's "tombs. O Egypt, Egypt! there will remain only a feigned show of thy religion, not believed by posterity; and nought but the letters which stand engraven on thy pillars will declare thy pious deeds; and in thee will dwell the Scythians, the Indians, or some other barbarous nation. The divinity will fly to heaven, and Egypt will be forsaken by God and man. I call upon thee, most holy river, I foretell unto thee what will come to pass. Thy waters and holy streams will be filled with blood, and will overflow thy banks, so that the dead will be more numerous than the living; and he that remains alive will be knowu to be an Egyptian only by his language, while in his deeds he will seem a barbarian.' But nothing that has once had being ever wholly dies; and many a faint trace of the Egyptian mind may yet be found mingled with our modern opinions, growing fainter each century as it spreads over a wider surface, but never to be quite lost. With the decay of the old religion there was too clearly to be seen an accompanying breaking up of society. Men are not held together by self interest only; civil and moral laws are not obeyed from the mere dictates of prudence; and hence lawgivers have usually stamped their codes with a divine sanction. Religion is the great bon...