In Egypt Mehemet Ali had succeeded in establishing himself as quasi independent ruler of the country.
MacTaggart, works round from idealism to an eternal quasi polytheistic society of equal souls.
Principes vero delectatione bonae famae largissimi, gens adulari sciens, eloquentiis in studiis inserviens in tantum, ut etiam ipsos pueros quasi rhetores attendas, quae quidem, nisi jugo justitiae prematur, effrenatissima est; laboris, inediae, algoris, ubi fortuna expedit, patiens, venationi accipitrum exercitio inserviens.
A Brabantine chronicle says that he was killed by an insane secretary (a clerico suo quasi dementi).
Naturally he selects fire, according to him the most complete embodiment of the process of Becoming, as the principle of empirical existence, out of which all things, including even the soul, grow by way of a quasi condensation, and into which all things must in course of time be again resolved.