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| | [INTRODUCTION] | i-lxi |
| | [TO THE READER] | lxiii-lxiv |
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CHAPTER I. |
| | THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION. |
| § 1. | [Egypt's place in the History of the World] | 1-2 |
| § 2. | [The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants] | 2-16 |
| § 3. | [The Great Divisions of Egyptian History] | 16-21 |
| § 4. | [The Constitution of Egyptian Society—Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments of Art] | 21-44 |
| § 5. | [The Egyptian Religion and its Influence upon the Plastic Arts] | 44-69 |
| § 6. | [That Egyptian Art did not escape the Law of Change, and that its History may therefore be written] | 70-89 |
| § 7. | [Of the place held in this work by the Monuments of the Memphite Period, and of the Limits of our Inquiry] | 89-93 |
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CHAPTER II. |
| | PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE. |
| § 1. | [Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture] | 94-96 |
| § 2. | [General Principles of Form] | 96-102 |
| § 3. | [General Principles of Construction.—Materials] | 103-106 |
| § 4. | [Dressed Construction] | 106-113 |
| § 5. | [Compact Construction] | 113-114 |
| § 6. | [Construction by Assemblage] | 114-119 |
| § 7. | [Decoration] | 119-125 |
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CHAPTER III. |
| | SEPULCHRAL ARCHITECTURE. |
| § 1. | [The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture] | 126-163 |
| § 2. | [The Tomb under the Ancient Empire] | 163-241 |
| | [The Mastabas of the Necropolis of Memphis] | 165-189 |
| | [The Pyramids] | 189-241 |
| § 3. | [The Tomb under the Middle Empire] | 241-254 |
| § 4. | [The Tomb under the New Empire] | 255-317 |
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CHAPTER IV. |
| | THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF EGYPT. |
| § 1. | [The Temple under the Ancient Empire] | 318-333 |
| § 2. | [The Temple under the Middle Empire] | 333-335 |
| § 3. | [The Temple under the New Empire] | 335-433 |
| § 4. | [General Characteristics of the Egyptian Temple] | 434-444 |