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The ChaldAans, being the most ancient
Babylonians, held the same station and dig-
nity in the State as did the priests in Egypt,
and spent all their time in the study of
philosophy and astronomy, and the arts of
divination and astrology. They held that
the world of which we have a conception
is an eternal world without any beginning
or ending, in which all things are ordered
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