aahhh petrie

(the above is my fav pic of petrie, its in the Mark Lehner book, the complete Pyramids)
religion and conscience in Egypt
copyrite 1898

But my object was to see what
really is, and not to try to fit that in with
any theories, however highly supported, or
any views, however orthodox. Treating the
divagations of human thought as if they
must have been systematic and logical has
been the bane of all theories ; and many a
house of cards has been built to match one
single fact or principle which has been
grasped. I do not touch the larger questions
here, but only deal with what we can
readily see and prove ; and in this place I
no more attempt to enquire what lies behind
the growth of ideas here traced, than the
biologist enquires what lies behind the comparison
and nature of the structures which
he unravels. We each try to see what
actually exists ; usually a safe and needful
course before attempting to account for its
results or its causes.