Human history / by G. Elliot Smith.

  • Grafton Elliot Smith
Date:
1934
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Human history / by G. Elliot Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EPILOGUE It took Man hundreds of thousands of years fully to realize the vast possibilities conferred upon him by human powers of vision and skill. When Man began to devise Civilization, he became entangled in the shackles of the theory of the State, which he himself had forged. It remained for the Greeks to remove the shackles and restore to human reason the freedom it had lost. Ever since then the history of the world has been a conflict between the rationalism of Hellas and the superstition of Egypt. It depends upon the human population of the world them¬ selves which will win. For thought and courage can decide the issue.