[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. [79] The same evolution is to be traced in China. “Imitations made of wood, clay, straw, paper, and of other material have been substituted for the real things.... Slaves and servants, wives and concubines are also burned, i.e., in paper imitations. They point back to the time when actual human sacrifices were the custom” (De Groot, _The Religion of the Chinese_ (1910), p. 71). [80] _Primitive Culture_ (1874), vol. ii, p. 85. [81] Maspero, _The Dawn of Civilization_, pp. 187 ff. [82] Truthfulness was one of the cardinal virtues of the Egyptian ideal. The requirements here were very exact: “I have not altered a story in the telling of it; I have repeated what I have heard just as it was told to me,” are the words of one in the judgment hall of Osiris. Cf. Renouf, _The Religion of Ancient Egypt_ (1884), pp. 76 f. [83] _The Egyptian Book of the Dead_, tr. Davis, chap. cxxv. [84] _The Egyptian Book of the Dead_, tr. Davis, chap. cxxv. [85] Annihilation appears to have been the lot of the very wicked; but the texts are not perfectly clear on this point. Consult Wiedemann, _The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul_ (1895), p. 55. [86] Here are six declarations of the confession which correspond almost exactly with six of the Ten Commandments: (1) I have not blasphemed; (2) I have not stolen; (3) I have not slain any one treacherously; (4) I have not slandered any one, or made false accusations; (5) I have not reviled the face of my father; (6) I have not eaten my heart through with envy. See Rawlinson, _History of Ancient Egypt_, 2d ed., vol. i, p. 142. [87] Petrie, _Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt_ (1898), p. 135. [88] _Ibid._ p. 162.