James Henry Breasted Quotes

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
• There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for…
• 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…
• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest…
• To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner…
• By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture…
• Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
• In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe…
• It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place…
• The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on…
• 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…
• Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
• In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific…
• It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within…
• In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians…

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