History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

by P. V. N. Myers

[69] Breasted, A History of Egypt (1905), p. 65.

[70] Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1912), p. 176.

[71] Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1912), p. 250.

[72] Maspero, The Dawn of Civilization, p. 172.

[73] This moralization of pure physical myths marks the advance of all races in culture and morality. As we shall see, Greek and Hebrew mythologies underwent just such an ethicalizing process.

[74] Renouf, The Religion of Ancient Egypt (1884), p. 73.

[75] “It has long been recognized that the Egyptians had a much more highly organized conscience than that of most other nations of early times.”—Petrie, Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt (1898), p. 86.

[76] Maspero, The Dawn of Civilization, pp. 193 f.

[77] Wiedemann, The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul (1895), pp. 62 f.

[78] Wiedemann, The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul (1895), p. 64.