The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous

To denote education 1 they represent the HEAVEN DISTILLING DEW, intimating that as falling dew alights on all Vegetables, and softens those which have a nature susceptible of being softened, but is unable to operate upon those which essentially remain hard in the same way as upon the others; so also among men education is common to all; and a man of an apt disposition receives it as dew, while

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a man of a disposition less docile is incapable of doing so.