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But archunky-the research of ancient civilisations-when the very foundations of our own are threatened by the new barbarism ↑ "
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In this one of the opening pasay his address as president of the British Association which met this year at Tewcastle, Sir Arthur Evans, the eminent archaologist, seemed to offer un apologis for the subject of his discourse in such And yet, he something might ban said, especially as regarded the prehistortie side of archaeology, for a theme which, in the midst of Ausgeddon, drew our Binds from present anxieties to the still, passionless man of the past, which lay
behind the limits qven of historic controversies.
H
From this point the presidiunt jussed on to a modest reference to his own researches in Crete, which were incre particularly concerned with prehistoric conditions in the island.
"The marvellous Minoan civilisation that had there come to light showel" he said, " that Crete of 4000 years ago ut unquestionably be regarded as the birthplace e of European civilisation in its higher form.
But were we even then appreciably wearer to the fountain betul a new and far more remote vists had opened out in recent years, and it was not too much to say that a wholly new stand. point had been gained from which to survey the early history of the human
10,000 YEARS BEFORE PAYIT. As an illustration of the level of artistic attainment in South Western Europe at a modest estimate soine 10,000 yars earlier than the most ancient monuments of Egypt, or Chalda, Sir Arthur mentioned that it was clear of artificial great progress in the art illumination had been made. Stove lumps were already in existence.
Of the origins of our complex Euro-
culture,
this much at least could be confidently stater, said the president, the ourliest extraneous sources on which it drew lay respectively in two directions: In the valley of the Nile on the one side, and in the valley of the Euphrates on the other. It had been made abundantly clear that the rise of Hellenic civilisation which it was a point of honour with classical scholar to reward as a wonder-child was itself part of a wider conomy, and could Longer be regarded as an isolated, phe
nomena.
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His own recent investigations more and more brought home to him the all-pervading community between Mison Crate and the land of the Pharaoha. Ancient Egypt would no longer be regarded as something apert from the general human history. Its influences were seen to lie about the
rery cradle of our own civilisation. Yers
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