The Symbolic Wisdom of the Egyptians

we can no longer find even a single trace
that could give us hope of ever
finding them again. Moreover, every
succeeding generation must, as if they were a new
people, always? first begin from the very start and spend
almost their whole life? The burn mark obscures the text, but the context suggests "passing time" or "spending a life." merely to first
study their way into the obscure? mass of human know-
ledge that the previous one left behind for them.
How many things do we not forget and over-
look; and what do whole generations
not forget in turn? Furthermore, our
knowledge does not grow as much or as rapidly as we
imagine. History History (Geschichte): Here used to mean the sheer accumulation of chronological events and records over time. does indeed grow
against our will with every passing day,
but arts and inventions do not. And from the very
fact that the Egyptians The author challenges the 18th-century view of Egypt as the "first" civilization, suggesting instead that their advanced state proves they inherited knowledge from even older, forgotten cultures. already
possessed so many arts and inventions,
it can be inferred how many cultivated peoples
preceded them, the memory of whom was lost.
Now, since