“Again in the animated commencement of his benediction, imitated in so many later poems of our nation: Jehovah came from Sinai, He rose up unto them from Seir; He shined forth from Paran, He came from the hills of Cadesh. From his right hand darted the rolling fire; Yea, he loved the people! All his glory is around thee; And sitting at thy feet they received thy words. Moses commanded us the law, The inheritance of the congregation of Israel. He was king in Israel, In the assembly of the heads of the people, Together with the tribes of Israel.—Deut. xxxiii. “In this manner, Myron, and by means of such a man, did Israel obtain its treasure and inheritance, the law. And this is the first period of the history of our people.” “Our best thanks belong to thee, venerable old man,” said Myron, “for the relation of it, and I can readily believe, that the history of thy nation has more in it than is commonly supposed. It was, I must confess, in a very different way that Lycurgus, Solon, Numa Pompilius, and even Pythagoras himself, gave their laws. There is something grand, exalted and divine, in the manner in which Moses speaks and acts. But permit me to remind you, that though you mentioned his being brought up at the court of Pharaoh, and instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, you have given us no hint that he may have learned much from the pillars of Isis, and that an imitation of the Egyptian polity is every where conspicuous in your law, especially in the double power of the king and the priest, the institution of a sacerdotal caste, the encouragement given to agriculture, your festivals, and many other particulars.”