Scrapnotes

Getting stuff out of my head. Occasionally not NSFW. So don't get fired! Also don't get excited because mostly it will be safe.
Oct 7 '10
“Our story begins with the Orient, not merely because Asia was the scene of the oldest civilizations known to us, but because those civilizations formed the background and basis of that Greek and Roman culture which Sir Henry Maine mistakenly supposed to be the whole source of the modern mind. We shall be surprised to learn how much of our most indispensable inventions, our economic and political organization, our science and our literature, our philosophy and our religion, goes back to Egypt and the Orient.”
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From the preface of The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant.

I’m hopping all over the place in my history studies at the moment, but rarely have I hopped back to before Ancient Greece and then only really to Egypt. Time to see what I’ve been missing.