Capitolo 45
it was an equal thing it darkens to his/her shine in the very spread out one
the abandonment and poverty to which both everywhere the people's mass
convict. They lived in small villages of unfortunate huts along the banks of the
river, in order with which it is probable that the capital is splendidly decorated
times and buildings. They spent their lives in the obscurity and the ignorance,
what probable that seven hundred thousand volumes of expensive manuscripts it is is
enrolled in the Museum for the use of foreign and studious philosophers.
The policy of the Ptolemies was, perhaps, on the whole one, the best, for
the general advancement and the last welfare of humanity that it was able
you/he/she has been pursued in the age in which they lived and they acted; but, in
applauding the results that they reached, we don't have to forget completely
the cost in that they incurred in to reach them. To the same cost, us
it was able, a present day, far you overcome them. If the people of the united one
States will surrender to the comforts and conveniences that them
individually enjoys--if the growers sprinkled in their comfortable houses
on the hill-sides and plans in all the earth it will abandon them
houses, their furniture, their carpets, their books and the rights
of their children, and then--holding back from the production of them
annual toil only an enough booking to sustain them and them
families through the year, in a life as that of a burden animal,
spends in of the miserable and naked hovel--sends the rest to some
sovereign hereditary that resides on the sea-axle in Atlantic that he is able
builds with the collections a splendid capital, them you/they can have an Alexandria
that will now exceed infinitely the ancient city of the Ptolemies in
the shine and the renown. The nation is also, able, in such case, you pay for his
metropolis the same price, precisely that the ancient Egyptians paid
for theirs.
The Ptolemies spent the incomes that they raised from this taxation
mainly in a very liberal way and illuminated, for the completion