THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
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‘‘.He who knows the story of the transition from the prehistoric hunters of the Nile jungle to the sovereigns and state-men. the architect,*. engineers, and craftsmen of a great organised society. which wrought these monumental wonder* along the Nile at a time when till F.nrope was still living in Stone Age barbarism, and there was none to teach a civilisation of the past he who knows all this knows the story of the first rise of civilisation anywhere on the glolie. Ju*t so the discovery of south-eastern Ktirope by civilisatin five thousand years ago. It brought, things into the life ol Europe which to-day are forces as constantly and insistently touching our lives on all that we do as the force of gravitation. the energy of coal, or the myriad modern applications of iron and steel. How far would the average eitizeif go in his day’s programme if lie were to eliminate as of no more use the tilings which he has inherited from the early Orient?”—Hr. J. IT. Breasted in his hook. “The New Past.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1925, Page 2
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186THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1925, Page 2
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