The Symbolic Wisdom of the Egyptians

...history, unfortunately, reaches no further, we must stop with the Egyptians as the first civilized people on earth. We cannot even venture to derive them from the Chinese, or the Chinese from them?, or from any other people to derive.? Everything that we put forward regarding the origin of the world? or the human race is lost in conjecture and mist; and perhaps, after all that philosophers and historians or antiquarians Antiquarians: scholars who study the history and physical relics of ancient civilizations. have dreamed regarding this, the most important remains what Horace Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) was a leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. This quote is from his Satires, Book 1, Satire 3. thought:

When living creatures crawled forth from the early earth,
A mute and base herd, for acorns and for dens

striving

original Latin: propter With nails and fists, then with clubs, and so

onward

original Latin: porro They fought with weapons, which experience had later forged; Until they found words by which to give meaning to their cries and feelings, and names: then they began to desist from war,