A collection of essays and lectures by anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, examining ancient beliefs and customs, including mummification and dragon symbolism, and their spread across cultures. He explores connections between Egyptian practices and the development of civilization. Worth listening to as an insight into early anthropology and the history of ideas.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE DRAGON BY G. ELLIOT SMITH, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ILLUSTRATED Manchester: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY London, New York, Chicago, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras 1919 PREFACE. Some explanation is due to the reader of the form and scope of these elaborations of the lectures which I have given at the John Rylands Library during the last three winters. They deal with a wide range of topics, and the thread which binds them more or less intimately into one connected story is only imperfectly expressed in the title "The Evolution of the Dragon". The book has been written in rare moments of leisure snatched from a variety of arduous war-time occupations;
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