Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IV] Permanence of High Intellect among the most trustworthy. The pyra¬ mid religion, which he helped to estab¬ lish by a series of coincidences in the dimensions of various parts of the pyra¬ mid with astronomical dimensions, of which the pyramid builders could have had no knowledge whatever (such as the distance of the sun, the precession of the equinoxes, etc.), was no doubt a vain imagining, but he frankly claimed it as a divine inspiration. All these are re¬ jected by Mr. Proctor, who clearly explains the purpose of the greater part of the internal structure as only an experienced practical astronomer could do. I will now state as briefly as possible what are the well-established facts, as well as the con¬ clusions at which Mr. Proctor arrives. The Great Pyramid and the two smaller ones near it, forming the pyramids of Gizeh, are placed on a small rocky plateau near the apex of the delta of the Nile. The largest of these is situated so that its northern face rises from the very edge of this plateau. The reason of this seems to have been that the builders wished to place it as nearly as possible on the 30th parallel of latitude. It is really about a mile and a third south of that parallel, 19](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0032.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
