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 Sepulchral Architecture. 131 With the progress of centuries and the development of reHgious thought, more elevated ideas prevailed. The growth of the ! 1 i I I ' ' ' ' ! i «=^innj r/fH^S/i44^^+ O/^l ' 1r " — -'D=;Si. dte /f==^JJJj /-^'yy^ '---^_ n_.^s^ I 1 = I I — f * (C^ > 03= Fig. 86. — Stele of the nth dynasty. Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. scientific spirit tended to make the notion of a being suspended between life and death ever more strange and inadmissible.