( An excerpt
from The Martyrdom – Winwood Reade )
… „ At first
sight there seems little in the arts and
sciences in Egypt which cannot be traced to the enlightened selfishness of the
priestly caste. For, in the earlier times, it was necessary for the priests to
labor unceasingly to preserve the power which they had usurped. It was necessary to overawe not only the people who worked in the fields, but their
own dangerous allies, the military
class; to make religion not only
mystirious, but magnificent : not only to predict the precise haur of the
rising of the waters, or the eclipses of the moon, but also to adopt and
nurture the fine arts, to dazzle the public with temples , monuments ,and
paintings .
Above all, it was necessary to prepare a system of government which
should keep the laboring classes in subjection,and yet stimulate them to labor
indefatigably for the state , which should strip them of all the rewards of
industry and yet keep that industry alive.Rien ne va plus.
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