THEY WANTED TO KNOW.
ABOUT “ THE PYRAMIDS.” The Cost in Labour. While waiting for the meeting to start members of the Matamata Chamber of Commerce were dispersed in groups chatting about all sorts of thngs. One man was asking how the pyramids were built, and so perhaps he and others may be interested in the following extract from Thomas Buckle’s “ History of Civilisation ”: “ We are startled by the reckless prodigality with which, in Egypt, the upper classes squandered away the labour and the lives of the people. In this respect, as the monuments yet remaining abundantly prove, they stand alone and without a rival. We may form some idea of the almost incredible waste, when we hear that two thousand men were occupied for three years in carrying a single stone from Elephantine to Sais; that the canal of the Red Sea alone; cost the lives of a hundred and twenty thousand Egyptians; and that to build one of the pyramids required the labour of three hundred and sixty thousand men for twenty years.” One may conclude that there was no trade union there.
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Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 178, 31 March 1927, Page 4
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