"The man who first gave history a recognized……" — James Henry Breasted
"The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian."
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16 Quotes by James Henry Breasted
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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land…
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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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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find…
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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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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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