nothing approaching- to an absolute rule. Thevarious trades were formed into corporations or guilds, rather thancastes in the strict sense of the word. From this it resulted thatgreat natural talents, fortunate circumstances, or the favour of thesovereign could raise a man of the lowest class up to… … Fig. 25.—Women at a loom. From a tomb at Beni-Hassan. (Champollion, 381 bis ) Such events were of frequent occurrence in all those orientalmonarchies where the will of the sovereign was the supreme andundisputed law. Even in our own days, similar things have 1 Herodotus, ii. 172. For an earlier…
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