Capitolo 44
Sacred writings sacred. They constituted copies new abbeys, convents and
university; and when, for a long time, the art to stamp was open this,
job was one of the first one on which the magic power of typography was
tried. The original manuscript served as the clerks of the seventy-two,
and all the first transcripts that were done by him, have from very since then
is lost or it destroyed; but, instead of them, we have in hundreds now of
thousand of copies in printed and compact volumes, shed among the
public and private libraries of Christianity. In fact, now, after the
two year-old error, a copy of the Septuagint of Ptolemy can be
gotten of some considerable bookseller in some country of the civilized one
world; and although it asked for a national embassage and an expense,
if the accounts are true, more of a million dollars, originally
you/he/she can now have been being gotten without the difficulty for two days to get him/it,'
a worker's wages to the agenda.
Besides the building of the Pharos, the Museum and the Temple of
Serapis, the first Ptolemies formed and performed a great many others
plain that mind to the same ends that the erection of this splendid
buildings were drawn to assure, or rather to assemble to Alexandria
entirely possible he/she wants to say some attraction, commercial, literary, and religious,
then as to manufacture the great center of interest the city and the ground of common ownership
applies for every humanity. They raised immense incomes for these and other
purposes heavily taxing the agricultural and whole production of the valley
of the Nile. The floods, from the boundless fertility that them
annually produced, it provided the real treasuries. This way the Abyssinian one
rains to the sources of the Nile built the Pharos to its mouth, and
equipped the library with Alexandrian.
The taxes placed on the people of Egypt to provide the Ptolemies with
funds were, in fact, so bad that only the nude means of existence
you/he/she had gone away to the mass of the agricultural population. In to admire the
the greatness and glory of the city, therefore we have to remember there that