Laing's standard of intellectual conscientiousness.]
[Footnote 44: P.F. 235]
[Footnote 45: M.S. 332 ff.]
[Footnote 46: H.O. 2.]
[Footnote 47: H.O. 8.]
[Footnote 48: H.O. II]
[Footnote 49: H.O. 9 and 199.]
[Footnote 50: H.O. 10.]
[Footnote 51: This seems, later, to be an inference, not an assertion.
"Manetho was a learned priest of a celebrated temple, who _must have
had_ access to all the temples and royal records and other literature of
Egypt, and who _must have been_ also conversant with foreign literature
to have been selected as the best man to write a complete history of his
native country." (H.O. 22.)]
[Footnote 52: He seems to think that Josephus was a Christian, and
Syncellus a "Father." We might mention that from the fragments of
Africanus' _Pentabiblion Chronicon_, preserved in Eusebius, the author
places the Creation at 5499 B.C., which is certainly hardly compatible
with his giving such fragments of Manetho as would place Menes one year
before that date. If we know nothing of Manetho's results except through
these "orthodox" sources, it is inconceivable that Mr.
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