But Egyptology, while thus aiding to sweep away the former
conception of our sacred books, has aided biblical criticism in
making them far more precious; for it has shown them to be a part
of that living growth of sacred literature whose roots are in all
the great civilizations of the past, and through whose trunk and
branches are flowing the currents which are to infuse a higher
religious and ethical life into the civilizations of the
future.[[376]]
But while archaeologists thus influenced enlightened opinion,
another body of scholars rendered services of a different sort--the
centre of their enterprise being the University of Oxford. By their
efforts was presented to the English-speaking world a series of
translations of the sacred books of the East, which showed the
relations of the more Eastern sacred literature to our own, and
proved that in the religions of the world the ideas which have come
as the greatest blessings to mankind are not of sudden revelation
or creation, but of slow evolution out of a remote past.
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