{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_egy_rtae_rtae12_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_egy_rtae_rtae12_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_egy_rtae_rtae12_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/rtae/rtae12.htm","summary":"The scepticism toward preparations for the hereafter involving a massive tomb and elaborate mortuary furniture, the pessimistic recognition of the futility of material equipment for the dead, pronounced as we have seen these tendencies to be in the Feudal Age, were, nevertheless, but an eddy in the broad current of Egyptian life. These tendencies were undoubtedly the accompaniment of unrelieved pessimism and hopelessness, on the one hand, as well as of a growing belief in the necessity of moral\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lec...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt","translated_text":null,"word_count":17534}