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, …

- James Henry Breasted

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,…

- James Henry Breasted

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

- James Henry Breasted

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 …

- James Henry Breasted

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

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…

- James Henry Breasted

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

- James Henry Breasted

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly d…

- 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 child…

- James Henry Breasted