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The peasant's mind reflects what has been rather than what is. It revolves in the same circle as the more cultivated mind of the nation, but at a much slower rate. On the great dial-plate of time, one is the hour-hand while the other is the minute-hand.

Charles Thomas Newton

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

Charles Thomas Newton

Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether the result be a house, a ship, a garment, a piece of glass, or a metallic implement, these memorials of economy and invention will always be worthy of the attention of the Archaeologist.

Charles Thomas Newton

Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.

Charles Thomas Newton

Charles Thomas Newton

Charles Thomas Newton

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Born: September 16, 1816

Died: November 28, 1894 (aged 78)

Bio: Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB was a British archaeologist. He was made KCB in 1887.

Known for:

Travels and Discoveries in the Levant (1865)
Essays on art and archæology (1880)
Images of the Ottoman Empire

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