. The eastern nations and Greece. , says Lenormant, inspite of all the ravages of time andof the barbarian still presents thegrandest, the most prodigious as-semblage of buildings ever erectedby the hand of man. In the cutting and shaping ofenormous blocks of the hardeststone, the Egyptians achieved re-sults which modem stonecutterscan scarcely equal. It is doubtful, says Rawlinson, whether thesteam-sawing of the present day could be trusted to produce in tenyears from the quarries of Aberdeen a single obelisk such as thosewhich the Pharaohs set up by dozens. ^ 1 ... In this judgment the Egypt
. The eastern nations and Greece. , says Lenormant, inspite of all the ravages of time andof the barbarian still presents thegrandest, the most prodigious as-semblage of buildings ever erectedby the hand of man. In the cutting and shaping ofenormous blocks of the hardeststone, the Egyptians achieved re-sults which modem stonecutterscan scarcely equal. It is doubtful, says Rawlinson, whether thesteam-sawing of the present day could be trusted to produce in tenyears from the quarries of Aberdeen a single obelisk such as thosewhich the Pharaohs set up by dozens. ^ 1 ... In this judgment the Egyptian introduced for the first time in the history ofman the fully developed idea that the future destiny of the dead must be dependententirely upon the ethical quality of the earthly life, the idea of future accountability. —Breasted, History of Egypt (1912), p. 173. ^History of Ancient Egypt ^ vol. i, p. 49S. The Egyptian stonecutters did much oftheir work with copper and bronze tools, to which they were able by some process to. Fig. 31. An Egyptian Obelisk §43] ASTRONOMY, GEOMETRY, AND MEDICINE 45
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