“[A] few faded and tattered little scraps of [the Book of Abraham] papyrus may serve to remind the Latter-day Saints of how sadly they have neglected serious education … Not only has our image suffered by such tragic neglect, but now in the moment of truth the Mormons have to face the world unprepared, after having been given a hundred years’ fair warning.”

Dr. Hugh Nibley, BYU Studies (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, Winter 1968), 171-172.