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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid…
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,…
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of…
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions…
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at…
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student…
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time…
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it…
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations…
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of…

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