This appearance of civilization for the first time is the most remarkable event in the history of the universe, in so far as it is known to us.
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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 H. Breasted
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
James H. Breasted
But it does not commonly occur to the traveller that, just as in America, so there on the Nile the wilderness preceded all this.
James H. 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.
James H. Breasted
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James H. Breasted
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 H. Breasted
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