. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. holes hewn in the limestone or granite, whichare entrances to ancient tombs ; and wherever theseare numerous or famous you will probably land toexamine some of them. Then will you perceive—inclimbing from the palm-grove to the breast of theyellow crag—what a fast faith those ancient Egyp-tians of the Pharaohs had in the immortal life ofthe soul. Otherwise they would not have cut
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. holes hewn in the limestone or granite, whichare entrances to ancient tombs ; and wherever theseare numerous or famous you will probably land toexamine some of them. Then will you perceive—inclimbing from the palm-grove to the breast of theyellow crag—what a fast faith those ancient Egyp-tians of the Pharaohs had in the immortal life ofthe soul. Otherwise they would not have cut awaythe solid rock so patiently into smooth, roomy, im-perishable chambers, to deposit therein two or threebodies at most, against such time as the respectivesouls belonging to them, their fated wanderingscompleted, should come back to look for and toresume the earthly tenement. Joyous and confidentpaintings on the tomb wall, as fresh in this dry, pureair as though drawn and coloured a week, and notthree thousand years ago, symbolise the happyfuture of the justified dead. The tombs are nowall rifled, and the patient mummies arc gone—someto museums, some to be manure for farmers or pig- ^W -?,»•>,.
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