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Quotes from Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt — James Henry Breasted

1865–1935 United States

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It was universalism expressed in terms of imperial power which first caught the imagination of the thinking men of the Empire, and disclosed to them the universal sweep of the Sun-god’s dominion as a physical fact. Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1912)

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