| races of men, both Egyptians and foreigners. Moreover, the king saw
in his God a kindly Father, who maintained all his creatures by his goodness,
so that even the birds in the marshes were aware of his kindness, and uplifted
their wings like arms to praise him, as a beautiful line in one of the
hymns tells us. In all the progress of men which we have followed
through thousands of years, no one had ever before caught such a vision
of the great Father of all. Such a belief in one god is called monotheism,
which literally means one-god-ism. |