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Category Archive: James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted Quote: “The man who first gave history…”

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

October 8, 2021 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “But it is obvious that our…”

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

September 24, 2021 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “This recognition of the earlier human…”

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

September 12, 2021 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “By 3000 B.C. the art of…”

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.

June 6, 2021 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “In the more recently disclosed field…”

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.

October 6, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “It is this conception of the…”

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.

June 8, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “To the present writer a careful…”

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

June 6, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “There was an age, however, when…”

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.

May 7, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “In any case, in so far…”

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.

March 22, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

James Henry Breasted Quote: “It is the recognition of history…”

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

January 12, 2020 1865, American, August 27, James Henry Breasted, Quotes by Historians

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