| Show rS The Investigations of ot Egyptologists ES have hao taken them to the tho very ery border of historic times Prof Flinders Pe Petri tri trl In a II recent lecture lectura on the Hue of or civilization In Egypt took look his audience back bacle to the reign of King Mena Ienn sup supposedly s p over MOO years before our era During his the tho professor said Egyptian art became fixed under Her Zer hIs successor It crystallized Into the forms that tha t lasted for years and that th are familiar from monuments and relics A peculiar tact fact was pointed out by bytho bytho tho lecturer He said the figures of or time are In tact fact better than the tho later Inter ones and like superiority char characterizes the Jewelry soldering and de designing designing signing The linen made In reign has a n finer thread closer warp than that of our finest modern cambric years later The art of working In hard and beautiful stones was at III Its best In Menas day ay There lire many evidences of Intercourse at this remote period with the tho Greek Islands the starting point of the history of ot Greek vases must now be bo taken back some three thousand years ears before the tho nn age King Den of the first dynasty reigned In a I period oC or sumptuous handiwork but the closing years year of ot tho dynasty were a n time of cheap profusion With later Inter dynasties and Industry decayed and the Rods gods multiplied In Egypt then we meet a I civilization tion which In Us Its first appearance In that country shows marks of excellence unsurpassed In subsequent apes There Is not a feeble Infancy developing to greater creater strength perfection as II years roll by but there thero Is n II mature civilization establishing Itself amI then subject to decay To account for this It must be sup supposed posed that It was Imported Importe Into Egypt Eg rt from some other country anil amI Mr Au Augustus gustus le Ie Idea that It camo from America Is perhaps tho most plausible so BO tar far suggested Ho Ito be that the Americans at that early period traversed the selS and had a n world commerce as Important as that of the today Ho Jle thinks that they the built colonies everywhere their civilization was diffused through throughout out the world by the Intercourse they thoy carried on with foreign nations One thins thing Is certain Civilization as all asfar far as known Is never attained by any people except through Influence from outside outRide sources source Nations may degener degenerate ate and In the struggle with nature forget arts and sciences 8 they have once cultivated There many Instances of this on record In the annals of his hlA history tory tOr but none to prove that civilization civilization tion Is IB a spontaneous growth Its very existence points to the divine Source of all light and knowledge knol dg the tho com communication at some time of man with his Maker lIker Civilization no more grows growl by Its own force than does a beautiful rose without the care of the gardener alener It must be planted The soil eoll must be specially prepared prepare It must be cultivated and watered protected and trimmed If It neglected It will wll return to Its wild state or wilt away aWn die leaving only the dry dr stems to mark the place It once adorned |
