Excerpt from Outlines of General History The history of the world is the history of man. After the divine wisdom and power had expressed themselves in the material universe, we behold, as the crowning act of divine energy and love, man, made in the image of God. The earth was given to him for dominion, and through the centuries he, in his various families, tribes, and races, has occupied and developed it. 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.