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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 Picture Quote #1

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 interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 either in Europe or America Picture Quote #1

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 analogous to that of natural science Picture Quote #1

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian Picture Quote #1

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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion Picture Quote #1

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 the first time Picture Quote #1

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today Picture Quote #1

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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 (James Henry Breasted Quotes) 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 interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (James Henry Breasted Quotes) 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. (James Henry Breasted Quotes) 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 either in Europe or America. (James Henry Breasted Quotes) 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 analogous to that of natural science. (James Henry Breasted Quotes) The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian (James Henry Breasted Quotes) Monotheism is but imperialism in religion (James Henry Breasted Quotes) 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 the first time (James Henry Breasted Quotes) It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today (James Henry Breasted Quotes)