"Today the traveller on the Nile enters a……" — 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 earliest childhood."
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James Henry Breasted
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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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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely…
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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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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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