Excerpt from Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Vol. 43: From July to December, Inclusive, 1860 According to t ie plan upon which the historical sketch here presented, therefore, is predicated, the whole course of human development, or that of the vanguard of humanity and its great central column, the Caucasian race, is divided into three main periods, (as by Bacon and Tennemann, ) the first period or day embracing the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman civilizations, which are respectively regarded as only ditl'erent periods of the same day, and ending with the downfall of Roman civilization in Italy in the fifth century - the second period embracing the epoch of Am bian or Saracen civilization, beginning with the latter part of the eighth century, and ending with the overthrow of the Arabian dominion in Asia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.