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Use the drop-down menu to complete the sentence. Based on this passage, what is James Cross Giblin's attitude toward Kircher? Use the drop-down menu to complete the sentence.
But Kircher's ideas about the hieroglyphs themselves were even farther off the mark than those of Horapollo. Looking at a certain group of symbols – which actually stood for the name of a pharaoh – Kircher let his imagination run wild. Without any evidence to support him, he said that the hieroglyphs meant "The blessings of the god Osiris are to be procured by means of sacred ceremonies, in order that the benefits of the river Nile may be obtained."

From 1650 onward, Kircher produced several volumes of such nonsense. It earned him a reputation for being an expert on the hieroglyphs – a reputation that lasted, unfortunately, long after his death in 1680.

—The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin
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