The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character

by Samuel Noah Kramer

spirit of co-operation among individuals and communities alike: the complete dependence of Sumer on irrigation for its well-being-indeed, for its very existence. Irrigation is a complicated process requiring communal effort and organization. Canals had to be dug

pragmatic matic view of life and, within the limits of their intellectual resources, sources, rarely confused fact with fancy, wish with fulfilment, or mystery with mystification. In the course of the centuries the Sumerian sages evolved a faith and creed which in a sense "gave