Tao Te Ching

“Through the Phoenicians, the Syrians and the Jews, through the Cretans, the Greeks and the Romans, what the civilization of Egypt accomplished at the very dawn of history has influence in every nation and every age... agriculture, metallurgy, industry and engineering; the apparent invention of glass and linen, of paper and ink, of the calendar and the clock, of geometry and the alphabet... of census and post... the first cry fro social justice, the first widespread monogamy, the first monotheism, the first essays in moral philosophy”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Our Oriental Heritage