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

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.

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.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

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

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.