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they tilled for their own living and principles of human freedom, equality for the maintenance of the State, The and harmony. The people lived like Egyptian peasants lived wonderfully brother in peace and happiness. simple and unpretending. The Though the pattern of family earning Egyptians were good and industrious was private, there was no greed and peasants and employed improved vulgarity attached to it as no private methods of husbandry. Their natural wealth was counter-balanced by comintelligence was remarkable as they munity wealth. There was no private were free tenants of their land. They or public display of wealth. The dishad not to render forced labour. They parities in incomes and possessions employed elaborate system of canals, appear to be negligible hence there with embankments, slinves and flood were no classes. There might have gates and constructed reservoirs for been high and low people but that was flood water. Land was extensively not on account of the differences in reclaimed from marshes for cultivation material possessions. That was due to They had abundant surplus yields. the inherent merit in intelligence and
The Egyptian industries were diver- prosperons for want of social tensions. sified and individual owned. The It was an integrated society. most important Egyptian industries
This study of this integrated society were building, stone.cutting, weaving,
of the most ancient Egypt is of prime furniture-making, glass-blowing, pottery, metallury, boat building and
importance in the present age of dis
integration wrought by the Aryan embalming 20
materialism of history that established The surplus agricultural and indus
its begemany over the whole world by trial outputs were stored by the society
the heginning of the first millenium B.C. in the community buildings. It appears
The communist tribalism and the capithat the internal trade was left largely
talist tribalism both, the ultimate dialecin private hands. The international
tical developments of the Aryan matetrade was centrally organised by the
rialism, stand at the brink of self-ancommunity. Pharoh was the wholesale
nihilation. Matter is characterised by merchant. Foreign trade was the royal
division and disruption. It has divided, monopoly.
disrupted and disintegrated the human The earliest immigrants into Egypt soul and the human society. How the peacefully developed their new home. materialistic tribal force displaced the Egypt shows its peaceful development Sramanic free society is an interesting till the fourth Dynasty. Snefru built a chapter of history. The fundamental fleet of sixty ships of one type for way that would regain to humanity its trade purposes. His times were free lost freedom, equality and peace has from wars.
to be rightly understood and follow. This picture of the most ancient This is the imperative necessity of the Egyptian people reveals their basic age. This purpose of the age forces
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