Egypt, (and probably much of the Ass sentiment of the Assyrian empire) represents that phase of developement, advanced childhood, full of belief, rich and divine enough, standing amazed and awed before the mystery of life.—nothing more wonderful than life, even in an a hawk a bull or a cat— _^—the masses of the people reverent of priestly and kingly authority. We cannot go All the hitherto modern cen-
turies The _^definite history and of the world We cannot go back farther than Egypt— and, in with [illegible] and
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in many the most important particulars the average spirit of man _^except in These States has not gone a single one step forward of the spirit of ancient Egypt.—

India, represents meditation, oriental rhapsody, _^passiveness, as curious antique schoolmasters teaching, _^of wise precepts— —and is the beginning of feudality, or the institution of the lord and the serf—much of the modern late‑age lord, or fine gentleman, dates ba so nice and delicate, dates af back to the oldest Indies. Hindustan