Even the injunction to "take no thought for the morrow," is only an extreme way of stating that the active side of human life, strenuous effort, self-denial, and foresight, must not be pushed so far as to stifle all higher aspirations. Probably if the same concrete case of conduct had been submitted to an Egyptian, a Babylonian or Zoroastrian priest, and to the late Bishop of Peterborough, their verdicts would not have been different. Such a wide extension does the maxim take, "One touch of Nature makes the world akin," when we educate ourselves up to the culture which gives some general idea of how civilized man has everywhere felt and believed since the dawn of history very much as we ourselves do at the close of the nineteenth century. CHAPTER V. ANCIENT SCIENCE AND ART. Evidence of Antiquity--Pyramids and Temples--Arithmetic--Decimal and Duodecimal Scales--Astronomy--Geometry reached in Egypt at earliest Dates--Great Pyramid--Piazzi Smyth and Pyramid-Religion--Pyramids formerly Royal Tombs, but built on Scientific Plans--Exact Orientation on Meridian--Centre in 30° N. Latitude--Tunnel points to Pole--Possible use as an Observatory--Procter--Probably Astrological--Planetary Influences--Signs of the Zodiac--Mathematical Coincidences of Great Pyramid--Chaldæan Astronomy--Ziggurats--Tower of Babel--Different Orientation from Egyptian Pyramids--Astronomical Treatise from Library of Sargon I., 3800 B.C.--Eclipses and Phases of Venus--Measures of Time from Old Chaldæan--Moon and Sun--Found among so many distant Races--Implies Commerce and Intercourse--Art and Industry--Embankment of Menes--Sphynx--Industrial Arts--Fine Arts--Sculpture and Painting--The Oldest Art the best--Chaldæan Art--De Sarzec's Find at Sirgalla--Statues and Works of Art--Imply long use of Bronze--Whence came the Copper and Tin--Phoenician and Etruscan Commerce--Bronze known 200 years earlier--Same Alloy everywhere--Possible Sources of Supply--Age of Copper--Names of Copper and Tin--Domestic Animals--Horse--Ox and Ass--Agriculture--All proves Extreme Antiquity.