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Meier-Graefe, Julius
Pyramid and temple — London, 1931

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but his notions left much to be desired. In a discourse on the
Egyptian mysteries he had made some unpleasant remarks:
a demagogue, he feared.

In the afternoon I found Aller and our priest on the
school porch. The paw was waving. The value of science
was so little questioned by the accredited servants of the
Church that Catholic zeal must claim credit for the first
illuminating interpretations of early history. God did not
approve of lazy people who lost themselves in idle wonder,
and no small concentration of all our spiritual powers was
needed to forge'sufficient weapons against those frightful
scourges of the Egyptian people. He would not think it
extravagant, however, to earmark some of Rockefeller’s
millions for the universally neglected missionary enterprises
in Upper Egypt.

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