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Godfrey Higgins

(1772–1833) Archaeologist

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Godfrey Higgins was an archaeologist.

Quick Facts About Godfrey Higgins

Born: January 30, 1772
Died: August 9, 1833
Profession: Archaeologist

About Godfrey Higgins

[Wikidata] British archaeologist (1772-1833)... | [Wikipedia] Godfrey Higgins was an English magistrate and landowner, a prominent advocate for social reform, historian, and antiquarian. He wrote concerning ancient myths. His book Anacalypsis, was published posthumously, in which he asserts a commonality among various religious myths, which he traces back to t

Quotes by Godfrey Higgins

When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or…

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Believe

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[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned…

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Christian

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We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the…

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Brahmins

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Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with…

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Catholic

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Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in…

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Adam

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A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair…

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Atheism

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Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

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Draws

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