"By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was……" — James Henry Breasted
"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 proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile."
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James Henry Breasted
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16 Quotes by James Henry Breasted
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art…
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely…
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has…
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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was…
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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the…
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It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study,…
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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
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There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group…
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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the…
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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
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