Sentence:  As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious <WSD>booby</WSD>, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A stupid person.