Excerpt from Egyptian Belief and Modern ThoughtThe author's simple design in this work, as in the Pyramid Facts and Fancies, was to collect information for those with little leisure for research.In this age of enquiry, when the foundations of belief are being rudely disturbed, when ancient authority is less respected as it is discovered less reasonable and worthy, but when men, as ever, seek to know what can be known of the Future Life, a resume' of the doctrines of the wise Egyptians cannot be unacceptable. No other race so dwelt upon the life to come.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.