Category: History - Ancient
Historical Standard of Time--Short Date inconsistent with Evolution--Laws of Historical Evidence--History begins with Authentic Records--Records of Egypt oldest--Manetho's Lists--Confirmed by Hieroglyphics--Origin of Writing--The Alphabet--Phonetic Writing--Clue to Hieroglyphi...
Moral and Religious distinct from Historical Inspiration--Myth and Allegory--The Higher Criticism--All Ancient History unconfirmed by Monuments untrustworthy--Cyrus--Old Testame...
17. CHAPTER V.Evidence of Antiquity--Pyramids and Temples--Arithmetic--Decimal and Duodecimal Scales--Astronomy--Geometry reached in Egypt at earliest Dates--Great Pyramid--Piazzi Smyth and P...
23. CHAPTER XI.Definition of Periods--Passage from Pliocene to Quaternary--Scarcity of Human Remains in Tertiary--Denudation--Evidence from Caves wanting--Tertiary Man a necessary inference fr...
15. CHAPTER III._Elam_--Very Early Civilization--Susa, an old City in First Chaldæan Records--Conquered Chaldæa in 2280 B.C.--Conquered by Assyrians 645 B.C.--Statue of Nana--Cyrus an Elamite K...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Proved by Contemporary Monuments--As in History--Summary of Historical Evidence--Geological Evidence of Human Periods--Neolithic Period--Palæolithic or Quaternary--Tertiary--Sec...
13. CHAPTER I.Historical Standard of Time--Short Date inconsistent with Evolution--Laws of Historical Evidence--History begins with Authentic Records--Records of Egypt oldest--Manetho's Lists...
18. CHAPTER VI.Short Duration of Tradition--No Recollection of Stone Age--Celts taken for Thunderbolts--Stone Age in Egypt--Palæolithic Implements--Earliest Egyptian Traditions--Extinct Animal...
24. CHAPTER XII.Monogeny or Polygeny--Darwin--Existing Races--Colour--Hair--Skulls and Brains--Dolichocephali and Brachycephali--Jaws and Teeth--Stature--Other Tests--Isaac Taylor--Prehistoric...
16. CHAPTER IV.Egypt--Book of the Dead--Its Morality--Metaphysical Character--Origins of Religions--Ghosts--Animism--Astronomy and Astrology--Morality--Pantheism and Polytheism--Egyptian Ideas...
21. CHAPTER IX.Causes of Glacial Periods--Actual Conditions of existing Glacial Regions--High Land in High Latitudes--Cold alone insufficient--Large Evaporation required--Formation of Glaciers...
22. CHAPTER X.No longer doubted--Men not only existed, but in numbers and widely spread--Palæolithic Implements of similar Type found everywhere--Progress shown--Tests of Antiquity--Position...
14. CHAPTER II.Chronology--Berosus--His Dates mythical--Dates in Genesis--Synchronisms with Egypt and Assyria--Monuments--Cuneiform Inscriptions--How deciphered--Behistan Inscription--Grotefen...
12. CHAPTER XII.Monogeny or Polygeny--Darwin--Existing Races--Colour--Hair--Skulls and Brains--Dolichocephali and Brachycephali--Jaws and Teeth--Stature--Other Tests--Isaac Taylor--Prehistoric...
3. CHAPTER III._Elam_--Very Early Civilization--Susa, an old City in First Chaldæan Records--Conquered Chaldæa in 2280 B.C.--Conquered by Assyrians 645 B.C.--Statue of Nana--Cyrus an Elamite K...
5. CHAPTER V.Evidence of Antiquity--Pyramids and Temples--Arithmetic--Decimal and Duodecimal Scales--Astronomy--Geometry reached in Egypt at earliest Dates--Great Pyramid--Piazzi Smyth and P...
7. CHAPTER VII.Moral and Religious distinct from Historical Inspiration--Myth and Allegory--The Higher Criticism--All Ancient History unconfirmed by Monuments untrustworthy--Cyrus--Old Testame...
11. CHAPTER XI.Definition of Periods--Passage from Pliocene to Quaternary--Scarcity of Human Remains in Tertiary--Denudation--Evidence from Caves wanting--Tertiary Man a necessary inference fr...
10. CHAPTER X.No longer doubted--Men not only existed, but in numbers and widely spread--Palæolithic Implements of similar Type found everywhere--Progress shown--Tests of Antiquity--Position...
6. CHAPTER VI.Short Duration of Tradition--No Recollection of Stone Age--Celts taken for Thunderbolts--Stone Age in Egypt--Palæolithic Implements--Earliest Egyptian Traditions--Extinct Animal...
1. CHAPTER I.Historical Standard of Time--Short Date inconsistent with Evolution--Laws of Historical Evidence--History begins with Authentic Records--Records of Egypt oldest--Manetho's Lists...
9. CHAPTER IX.Causes of Glacial Periods--Actual Conditions of existing Glacial Regions--High Land in High Latitudes--Cold alone insufficient--Large Evaporation required--Formation of Glaciers...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Proved by Contemporary Monuments--As in History--Summary of Historical Evidence--Geological Evidence of Human Periods--Neolithic Period--Palæolithic or Quaternary--Tertiary--Sec...
2. CHAPTER II.Chronology--Berosus--His Dates mythical--Dates in Genesis--Synchronisms with Egypt and Assyria--Monuments--Cuneiform Inscriptions--How deciphered--Behistan Inscription--Grotefen...
4. CHAPTER IV.Egypt--Book of the Dead--Its Morality--Metaphysical Character--Origins of Religions--Ghosts--Animism--Astronomy and Astrology--Morality--Pantheism and Polytheism--Egyptian Ideas...