Note B — LINES OF ARGUMENT.

After the above was written, the following came to my notice from Prof. Sayce in a late work entitled, “The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia.” In speaking of the custom of the authorities, he says, “A tithe of all that the land produced was theirs, and it was rigorously exacted, for the support of the temples and priests. Babylonia, in short, was the inventor of the tithe.”