BREASTED, JAMES HENRY. - The Dawn of Conscience. The Sources of our Moral Heritage in the Ancient World.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. "Through his years of research in Egypt and the Near East Dr Breasted shows that conscience, the challenge of the voices within, dawned in the vALLEY OF THE Nile and had its first expression in inscriptions whose origin goes backj to 5000 years B.C..The book begins with the emergence of moral ides from nature worship and culminates in the sublimely tragic effort of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton, "God-intoxicated man", to usher in a new age of brotherly kndness 2000 years B.C." Pp.xviii/431, 19 figure illustrations, owner's names to front free endpaper. Red boards with gilt title to front and spine, dustwrappertoned with chipped losses to top and tail of spine. G+/G+.

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