Download or read book Ancient History Literature and Art written by Julia Harris Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Art in Chald a Assyria written by Georges Perrot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Art in Chaldea Assyria Vols 1 2 written by Georges Perrot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Orient and Greece written by George Willis Botsford and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Ancient Times written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biblia written by Charles Henry Stanley Davis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British museum and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History for Ready Reference written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historians History of the World Vol 1 of 25 Illustrations written by Henry Smith Williams and published by THE TROW PRESS. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete world history should, properly speaking, begin with the creation of the world as man’s habitat, and should trace every step of human progress from the time when man first appeared on the globe. Unfortunately, the knowledge of to-day does not permit us to follow this theoretical obligation. We now know that the gaps in the history of human evolution as accessible to us to-day, vastly exceed the recorded chapters; that, in short, the period with which history proper has, at present, to content itself, is a mere moment in comparison with the vast reaches of time which, in recognition of our ignorance, we term “prehistoric.” But this recognition of limitations of our knowledge is a quite recent growth—no older, indeed, than a half century. Prior to 1859 the people of Christendom rested secure in the supposition that the chronology of man’s history was fully known, from the very year of his creation. One has but to turn to the first chapter of Genesis to find in the margin the date 4004 B.C., recorded with all confidence as the year of man’s first appearance on the globe. One finds there, too, a brief but comprehensive account of the manner of his appearance, as well as of the creation of the earth itself, his abiding-place. Until about half a century ago, as has just been said, the peoples of our portion of the globe rested secure in the supposition that this record and this date were a part of our definite knowledge of man’s history. Therefore, one finds the writers of general histories of the earlier days of the nineteenth century beginning their accounts with the creation of man, B.C. 4004, and coming on down to date with a full and seemingly secure chronology. Our knowledge of the world and of man’s history has come on by leaps and bounds since then, with the curious result that to-day no one thinks of making any reference to the exact date of the beginnings of human history,—unless, indeed, it be to remark that it probably reaches back some hundreds of thousands of years. The historian can speak of dates anterior to 4004 B.C., to be sure. The Egyptologist is disposed to date the building of the Pyramids a full thousand years earlier than that. And the Assyriologist is learning to speak of the state of civilisation in Chaldea some 6000 or 7000 years B.C. with a certain measure of confidence. But he no longer thinks of these dates as standing anywhere near the beginning of history. He knows that man in that age, in the centres of progress, had attained a high stage of civilisation, and he feels sure that there were some thousands of centuries of earlier time, during which man was slowly climbing through savagery and barbarism, of which we have only the most fragmentary record. He does not pretend to know anything, except by inference, of the “dawnings of civilisation.” Whichever way he turns in the centres of progress, such as China, Egypt, Chaldea, India, he finds the earliest accessible records, covering at best a period of only eight or ten thousand years, giving evidence of a civilisation already far advanced. Of the exact origin of any one of the civilisations with which he deals he knows absolutely nothing. “The Creation of Man,” with its fixed chronology, is a chapter that has vanished from our modern histories. To be continue in this ebook...
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publisher s Weekly American Book Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
