This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image