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THE MONUMENTS OF UPPER EGYPT.
good is incessantly struggling with evil, truth
with falsehood, light with darkness, life with
death. Osiris is one of the personifications of
the eternal antagonism of these two opposing
principles. At one moment overthrown by
Typhon, the genius of evil, Osiris dies; he
revives only to fall again. Out of this antago-
nism and the numerous explanations and illus-
trations drawn from the myth the pseudo-
Plutarch has woven the thread of his admirable
Treatise.
ii. — history.
The history of Egypt commences with Menes,
the founder of the monarchy, and it terminates
with the Emperor Theodosius, who abolished by
a decree the ancient religion of the land (a.d.
381).
During this long period Egypt was not always
mistress of her destinies. She had been con-
quered by the Shepherds, a horde of barbarians
from Asia; by the Ethiopians, by the Greeks,
and by the Romans, to say nothing of partial
incursions of Libyan and Arabian tribes. But
all these conquerors, not even excepting the
Shepherds, adopted while in Egypt the religion,
the arts, language, and customs of the conquered
THE MONUMENTS OF UPPER EGYPT.
good is incessantly struggling with evil, truth
with falsehood, light with darkness, life with
death. Osiris is one of the personifications of
the eternal antagonism of these two opposing
principles. At one moment overthrown by
Typhon, the genius of evil, Osiris dies; he
revives only to fall again. Out of this antago-
nism and the numerous explanations and illus-
trations drawn from the myth the pseudo-
Plutarch has woven the thread of his admirable
Treatise.
ii. — history.
The history of Egypt commences with Menes,
the founder of the monarchy, and it terminates
with the Emperor Theodosius, who abolished by
a decree the ancient religion of the land (a.d.
381).
During this long period Egypt was not always
mistress of her destinies. She had been con-
quered by the Shepherds, a horde of barbarians
from Asia; by the Ethiopians, by the Greeks,
and by the Romans, to say nothing of partial
incursions of Libyan and Arabian tribes. But
all these conquerors, not even excepting the
Shepherds, adopted while in Egypt the religion,
the arts, language, and customs of the conquered