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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted
American Historian
Born: Aug 27, 1865
Died: Dec 2, 1935
Civilization Doubt First History Science Time
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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. James Henry Breasted
History Old Once Background Recognition Come Instruction Obvious Itself Than Did Human Centuries Us Less Inclusion Event Now Earlier Two University
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
Art Culture Nile Find Ripe Civilization Student Crude Proposing Advanced Contemporary Contemporary Art Surprising Than Any Egypt Far Product Earlier Early
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
Achievement Science Natural Unity Study Since Perhaps Conception Greatest Greatest Achievement Historical Human Place Which Gained Natural Science Career
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. James Henry Breasted
Progress Important Factor Never Disapproval Without Been Very Any Really
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. James Henry Breasted
History Experience Complete Framework Recognition Record Civilization Resulted Within Inevitably Human Which Human Experience Human History Inclusion Conquest
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 Henry Breasted
Life Time Knowledge First Universe Our Evolution Carries Case Civilization Attained Had Highest Advent Globe First Time Any Represents Ascent Which Anywhere Processes Far Us
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. James Henry Breasted
Doubt Mediterranean Corner No Doubt Born Seems Civilization Writer Facts Study Leave Southeast Available Now Present Careful
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. James Henry Breasted
Doubt Creation Group Sides Way Both Civilizations Both Sides Between Known Led Egypt Africa Which Little Room Land Bridge Millennium Earliest Fourth
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. James Henry Breasted
History Man Science First Gave Ancient Recognized Historian Place Who
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
History Responsibility Sense Field Ancient East Has-Been More However Been Historians America Either Europe Displayed Near Recently

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