Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

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.

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.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.