Sethos: History or Life Taken from the Private Monuments of Ancient Egypt

simply moral, that Christian virtues are to them what faith is to reason: that is to say, they are superior to them without ever being contrary to them The author is arguing that religious values (faith/Christian virtue) don't replace basic human ethics (reason/moral virtue), but rather build upon and improve them..

A second aim of my Author was to include in his work, by way of an Egyptian Hero, a great number of literary curiosities concerning that famous Nation. Moreover, as he makes his Hero travel across a large part of the earth, he had carefully collected the first notions of ancient Geography. This is undoubtedly one of the reasons that led him to adopt the style of a History or a Life A "Life" refers to a biography, a popular literary form in the 18th century used to provide moral examples through a person's life story., rather than that of a Poem or a Romance Original: "Roman." In this period, a "romance" or "novel" was often considered a less serious, purely fictional genre, whereas a "history" claimed to be educational and true.. Indeed, the examples of Herodotus, Polybius, Diodorus, and especially Plutarch These are all famous historians and biographers from Ancient Greece and Rome whose works blended storytelling with historical facts and moral lessons., authorized him to insert into his narrative not only—