Leigh Hunt Quotes
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
6th Baron Byron. England in the 18th Century was fascinated with Egyptian history, archeology, and art
In contrast to Queen Victoria and the Conservative Government before him, Gladstone opposed most colonial expansionism. However, in a policy analysis that in later years would come to be called “the Domino Theory,” Gladstone felt compelled to put down the revolt.
Studies of Egypt were running headlong into contradictions of the age of man as dictated by the religious authorities of the time. Adam and Eve were fixed at about 4,000 BC by most authorities, but at that time the Egyptian civilization was quite fully developed. How did the Egyptians have the time to develop? Southall’s solution was this.
What Garvey believed about Egypt was not quite true. However, there was a more important grain of truth in Garvey’s assertion, but he was not aware of it as the science did not emerge until the latter part of the 20th century. Specifically, all humans today genetically had a common Black ancestor in Africa. In that sense, at one point, there were no other humans but Blacks, and they certainly ruled their world. However, man moved out of Africa to inhabit much of the world and different racial attributes evolved over time. See {618972} for a modern pickup of Garvey’s notion. The majority of historians and archeologists believe that ancient Egypt was a multi-racial society with extensive intermarriage. The Nubians to the South (Sudan) were and are very dark-skinned, the Lybians in North Africa were much like the Arabs of toady, and there were Greeks and other Caucasians who were in Egypt which was one of the centers of world civilization that attracted people from all over. The Pharoh of Egypt, Ptolemy was a white Greek—one of the Generals of Alexander the Great, (for whom Alexandria was named) and Cleopatra was descended from him and more traditional Egyptians.
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
