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isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"And now we will bid farewell to thaumatophobia and its advocates and consider thaumatomania under its multifarious aspects. In volume II., we intend to review the "miracles" of Paganism and weigh the evidence in their favor in the same scales with Christian theology. There is a conflict not merely impending but already begun between science [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"The Champollions were the first in Europe to take the student of archeology by the hand, and, leading him on into the silent crypts of the past, prove that civilization did not begin with our generations; for "though the origins of ancient Egypt are unknown, she is found to have been at the most distant [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"After having devoted their whole lives to the study of the records of the old Egyptian wisdom, both Champollion-Figeac and Champollion, Junior, publicly declared, notwithstanding many biased judgments hazarded by certain hasty and unwise critics, that the Books of Hermes "truly contain a mass of Egyptian traditions which are constantly corroborated by the most authentic [...]