“Since the radicals of one age are the reactionaries of the next, it was not to be expected that the men who created Egyptology should be the first to accept as authentic the remains of Egypt’s Old Stone Age; after forty 'les savants ne sont pas curieux' ('scientists are not curious,' quoting Anatole France). [...]"
Will Durant, Story of Civilization, Vol.1: Our Oriental Heritage, Book 1, Ch.8, Part 2, Segment 2, 1935 (italics and formatting added)
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