Quote#World
[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm…
Quote byJames Henry Breasted · 1865–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (1905), Ch. 27: The Restoration (pp. 397–8); the Near East in the 7th century BC.
English (original)
[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he had no vital meaning. Likewise in Babylon the same retrospective spirit was now the dominant characteristic of the reviving empire of Nebuchadrezzar. The world was already growing old, and everywhere men were fondly dwelling on her faraway youth.
— James Henry Breasted
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