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 (19.) "It is the greatet boat of philoophy and eloquence, that they firt congregated men dipert, united them into ocieties, and built up the houes and walls of cities. I wih they could unravel all they had woven; that we might have our woods and our innocence again, intead of our catles and our policies. They have aembled many thousand of cattered people into one body; 'tis true they have done o; they have brought them together into cities to cozen, and into armies to murder one another."—Cowley, "on the Danger of an honet Man's keeping Company."

"After the Gods, ays Diodorus Siculus, (econd ection of book firt,) Menas reigned in Ægypt. He taught the people