Hippolyte Taine,
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise…
“ The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balzams.... Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.... Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. 353: Consulter Milsand, étude sur sir Thomas Browne, Revue des Deux-Mondes, 1858. ”
