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. 1884 Excerpt: ... and to simple common sense would seem to leave room for no further question in regard to its character. But simple common sense is not the quality for which our friends of the Pyramid persuasion are most remarkable. To them, this stone box had a more lofty design than that of receiving the body of any mortal man, ...
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ... and to simple common sense would seem to leave room for no further question in regard to its character. But simple common sense is not the quality for which our friends of the Pyramid persuasion are most remarkable. To them, this stone box had a more lofty design than that of receiving the body of any mortal man, however great or powerful. It is the visible embodiment of a divine message to men, prescribing to them the system of weights and measures by which they are bound to be governed in their dealings with one another. Primarily, it is a standard of capacity; but secondarily, it becomes a standard of weight likewise; and more indirectly still, a standard of length. Moreover, its capacity as a standard, must be understood of the capacity which belonged to it before it received those modifications which give it, at present, the appearance of a sarcophagus. In other words, in its original construction, all its sides were of equal height, and none of them were cut away in whole or in part. In that condition it constituted a measure of the unit of capacity from which all other measures were to be derived. The modification and mutilation of its form, which have thrown so much obscurity over its original design, are assumed to be outrages committed by sacrilegious hands in later but unascertained times. In corroboration of this view, it is remarked that the vessel, though prepared to receive a lid, has never had a lid since the time of its discovery in A.D. 820, by Al Mamoun; and that a sarcophagus without a lid is not a sarcophagus. The argument may be taken for what it is worth; but it seems to be attended with one or two slight difficulties, among which are the following: 1. Nobody knows what Al Mamoun found in the Pyramid, but all the world knows what he ...
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