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A discourse on the progress and limits of social improvement; including a general survey of the history of civilization - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ... no means of deciding with certainty which was a colony from the other. As far as the accounts carry us, the priority belongs to Ethiopia. The history of this nation is almost wholly concealed in the night of ages; and we know but little of it, excepting that it must have been in its day the seat of great power, wealth, and luxury, and the point from which they diffused themselves over all the neighboring regions. From this remote quarter, civilization descended the Nile into Egypt, and was carried over the Red Sea into Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotomia. Babylon and Nineveh are represented in Scripture as colonies of Ethiopia. Phenicia, which included Tyre, and of course Carthage, which was a colony of the latter city, sprung from the same stock. In short, the whole North of Africa and South-west of Asia,--the whole vast extent of territory, which stretches from the Streights of Gibraltar to the Ganges,--was peopled by a family of kindred nations, of which Ethiopia was the parent, and Egypt the most prominent member. Egypt is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable nations that have ever flourished, and has, indeed, lately been pronounced by a powerful British writer, decidedly the most remarkable of all. Her history, like that of Ethiopia, is nearly unknown in its details; but there is evidence enough remaining of the power, wealth and high civilization, which distinguished her at the period of her greatest prosperity. In proof of this, I need only mention the Pyramids, and the ruins of cities and temples, that cover the banks of the Nile:--monuments, that are so far from having been equalled or surpassed at any subsequent period, that we can even now hardly form an idea of the possibility of their construction. These magnificent ruins are, however,...
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