"If you take away from the Latin, German, and Slavic nations of our day on both sides of the ocean that which they owe…"

"One presupposition, which in this matter has been of great harm and continues to do harm, is the separation between o…"

"Interest in the Greeks was again partly theological; the world of the church fathers was one suffused with questions …"

"Thus the Phrygians, earliest of all races, call me Pessinuntia, mother of all gods. Thus the Athenians, sprung from t…"

"We Greeks own Egypt, the grand monarchy of letters and nobility, to be the parent of our fables, metaphors and doctri…"

"And since Egypt is the country where mythology places the origin of the gods, where the earliest observations of the …"

"It was the belief of the Greeks that many elements of their civilization had come to them from Egypt… [I]n Egypt the …"

"Egypt can be regarded as the mother of all theogonies and the source of all the fictions which the Greeks received an…"

"at a riper age I no longer presume to connect the Greek, the Jewish and the Egyptian antiquities, which are lost in a…"

"Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece from Egypt. .. Besides these which have been here mentioned, there …"