Capitolo 31
administration of government and the institutions from that the
industrial searches of the mass of the people were regulated, and the peace
and order preserved, and justice strengthened among man and equips, it was everybody
this time in that the hands of men have qualified well, on the whole one for the
trusts committed to their position, and in a good faithful degree in the
show of their duties; and so the business to the agenda of
government and the general routine of the national and social life, went
on, despite the immorality of the kings, in a progress of a lot
the tolerable peace, the prosperity and the happiness. During every one of the
three hundred years on which it extends the history of the Ptolemies the,
whole length and the width of the earth of Egypt exhibited, with
interruptions comparatively few, a wide-diffused scene of busy industry.
The floods came to their named season, and then regularly
retired. The boundless fields that had enriched the waters were then
every where it cultivated. Earths were ploughed; the seed was sown; the channels
and water-course that you/they branched above from the river in every direction
earth, was open or dams, as it asked for the case to regulate the,
irrigation. The inhabitants were busy, and, accordingly, they was
virtuous. And as the sky of Egypt you/he/she is rarely darkened by clouds or never
and storms, the scene introduced the same unchangeable aspect to the eye of
smiling vegetable and the beauty, day after day and month after month, up to that
the matured wheat was gathered in the shop-houses, and earth was
clarified for another flood.
We say that the people were virtuous because they was busy; for there
it is any principle of economics established more fully that that
I spoil in the social state it is the accident and symptom of the idleness. It
it prevails in those classes of every great population that it is always
one released by the possession of fixed and unchangeable wealth from
the necessity, or excluded by their poverty and the degradation by the
advantage, of job profit. Wealth that is free, and subject to his