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THIS is a book well worth reading, difficult to describe, and impossible to criticise. The title would lead one to expect a scientific analysis and classification of ancient signs and symbols, as well as a digest of the religious doctrines from the eschatology of the ancient Egyptians. The author in his own discursive way deals with an abundance of materials for a truly scientific work, but the best that can be said of the scientific character of the book is that, with ordinary care in dovetailing the materials and exact references to sources, it would have been a useful work of reference.
The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, being an Explanation of the Religious Doctrines from the Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians.
Dr. Albert Churchward. Pp. xxiii + 449. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 25s. net.
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GRIFFITH, J. The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, being an Explanation of the Religious Doctrines from the Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians . Nature 90, 406–407 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090406a0
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