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[Editorial] Gizeh -> Giza
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<p>Academician Lofting Gubelin, seated in his office, was being pontifical. His old friend Hans Girard-Perregaux had enough other things on his mind to let him get away with it, only half following the monologue.</p>
<p>“I submit,” Gubelin orated, “that there is evolution in society. But it is by fits and starts, and by no means a constant thing. Whole civilizations can go dormant, so far as progress is concerned, for millennia at a time.”</p>
<p>Girard-Perregaux said mildly, “Isn’t that an exaggeration, Lofting?”</p>
<p>“No, by Zoroaster, it is not! Take the Egyptians. Their greatest monuments, such as the pyramids, were constructed in the earlier dynasties. Khufu, or Cheops, built the largest at Gizeh. He was the founder of the 4th Dynasty, about the year 2900 <abbr epub:type="se:era">BC</abbr>. Twenty-five dynasties later, and nearly three thousand years, there was no greatly discernable change in the Egyptian culture.”</p>
<p>“No, by Zoroaster, it is not! Take the Egyptians. Their greatest monuments, such as the pyramids, were constructed in the earlier dynasties. Khufu, or Cheops, built the largest at Giza. He was the founder of the 4th Dynasty, about the year 2900 <abbr epub:type="se:era">BC</abbr>. Twenty-five dynasties later, and nearly three thousand years, there was no greatly discernable change in the Egyptian culture.”</p>
<p>Girard-Perregaux egged him on gently. “The sole example of your theory I can think of, offhand.”</p>
<p>“Not at all!” Gubelin glared. “The Mayans are a more recent proof. Their culture goes back to at least 500 <abbr epub:type="se:era">BC</abbr>. At that time their glyph-writing was already widespread and their cities, eventually to number in the hundreds, being built. By the time of Christ they had reached their peak. And they remained there until the coming of the Spaniards, neither gaining nor losing, in terms of evolution of society.”</p>
<p>His colleague sighed. “And your point, Lofting?”</p>
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