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[Following on from page 141]

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It reached the pinnacle of its glory somewhere about the sixth dynasty. According to "Cairo of Today" it began its decline in the eighteenth dynasty, resigning its position as metropolis of Egypt to Thebes. From then on its history is one of a succession of conquests  €“ Assyrian, Aethiopian, Persian and Greek. No wonder the Egyptians are a low race. If I remember rightly it was a great Prussian Jew who said "We have been trodden into the mud, until we have become mud". The remark seems to fit the case of the Egyptians aptly.

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