Editing Golden Rule (section)

===Ancient Egypt===
Possibly the earliest affirmation of the maxim of reciprocity, reflecting the ancient Egyptian goddess [[Ma'at]], appears in the story of "[[The Eloquent Peasant]]", which dates to the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] ({{circa|2040–1650 BCE}}): "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do."<ref>[http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/REL499_2011/Eloquent%20Peasant.pdf Eloquent Peasant PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925125920/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/REL499_2011/Eloquent%20Peasant.pdf |date=25 September 2015 }} "Now this is the command: do to the doer to make him do"</ref><ref name="John Albert Wilson p. 121">''"The Culture of Ancient Egypt"'', John Albert Wilson, p. 121, [[University of Chicago Press]], 1956, {{ISBN|0-226-90152-1}} "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do"</ref> This proverb embodies the ''[[do ut des]]'' principle.<ref>[http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/REL499_2011/Eloquent%20Peasant.pdf Eloquent Peasant PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925125920/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/REL499_2011/Eloquent%20Peasant.pdf |date=25 September 2015 }} "The peasant quotes a proverb that embodies the do ut des principle"</ref> A [[Late Period of ancient Egypt|Late Period]] ({{circa|664–323 BCE}}) papyrus contains an early negative affirmation of the Golden Rule: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another."<ref>"''[http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/saoc52.pdf A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text: P. Brooklyn 47.218.135"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005012109/http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/saoc52.pdf |date=5 October 2013 }}'', Richard Jasnow, p. 95, University of Chicago Press, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-918986-85-6}}.</ref>