Ancient-egyptians Quote by James Henry Breasted

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

— James Henry Breasted

“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

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

— James Henry Breasted

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

— James Henry Breasted

“[...] 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

“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

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

“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

“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

“[...] 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

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

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