Excerpt from Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 3: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
Egypt was the mould of the Hebrew nation - the matrix in which a single family, or, at most, a small tribe, grew to a people as numerous as the American people at the time of the Declaration of Independence. For four centuries, ao cording to the Hebrew tradition - a period as long as America has been known to Europe - this growing people, coming a patriarchal family from a roving, pastoral life, had been placed under the dominance of a highly developed and ancient civilization - a civilization symbolized by monuments that rival in en durance the everlasting hills; a civilization so ancient that the Pyramids, as we now know, were hoary with centuries ere Abraham looked on them.
No matter how clearly the descendants of the kinsmen who came into Egypt at the invitation of the boy-slave become prime minister, maintained the distino tion of race, and the traditions of a freer life, they must have been powerfully affected by such a civilization; and just as the Hebrews of to-day are Polish in Poland, German in Germany, and American in the United States, so, but far more clearly and strongly, the Hebrews of the Exodus must have been Egyptian.
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