sent
from the original conception of the temple services. The earliest idea
of the temple as a place of offering has not been lost sight of. Even in
our times the offertory still finds a place in temple services.

[25: G. Elliot Smith, "The Earliest Evidence of Attempts at
Mummification in Egypt," _Report British Association_, 1912, p. 612:
compare also J. Garstang, "Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt," London,
1907, pp. 29 and 30. Professor Garstang did not recognize that
mummification had been attempted.]

[26: G. Elliot Smith, "The History of Mummification in Egypt," _Proc.
Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow_, 1910: also "Egyptian Mummies,"
_Journal of Egyptian Archaeology_, Vol. I, Part III, July, 1914, Plate
XXXI.]

[27: "Excavations of the Vienna Imperial Academy of Sciences at the
Pyramids of Gizah, 1914," _Journal of Egyptian Archaeology_, Vol. I, Oct.
1914, p. 250.]

[28: "Excavations at Saqqara," 1907-8, p. 113.]

[29: The great variety of experiments that were being made at the
beginning of the Pyramid Age bears ample testimony to the fact that the
original inventors of these devices were actually at work in Lower Egypt
at that time.]

[30: Aylward M. Blackman, "The _Ka_-House and the Serdab," _Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology_, Vol. III, Part IV, Oct., 1916, p. 250. The word
_serdab_ is merely the Arabic word used by the native workmen, which has
been adopted and converted into a technical term by European
archaeologists.]

[31: _Op. cit._ p. 171.]

[32: It is a remarkable fact that Professor Garstang, who brought to
light perhaps the best, and certainly the best-preserved, collection of
Middle Kingdom mummies ever discovered, failed to recognize the fact
that they had really been embalmed (_op. cit._ p. 171).]

[33: The reader who wishes for fuller information as to the reality of
these beliefs and how seriously they were held will find them still in
active operation in China. An admirable account of Chinese philosophy
will be found in De Groot's "Religious System of China," especially Vol.
IV, Book II. It represents the fully developed (New Empire) system of
Egyptian belief modified in various ways by Babylonian, Indian and
Central Asiatic influences, as well as by accretions developed locally
in China.]

[34: A. M. Blackman, "The _Ka_-House and the Serdab," _The Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology_, Vol. III, Part IV, Oct., 1916, p. 250.]

[35: "Migrations of Early Culture," p. 37.]

[36: D