The Footprints of Time, and a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government: With a Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Civilization, the Relation of the Old World to the Free Institutions of the New, the Establishment and Growth of the English Colonies and of the United States of America, Facts and Statistics from Official Sources |
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... race is essentially a Unit , that it has been growing through all the centuries and is now ap- proaching the prime of its manhood , just ready to enter on its special career with its grandest work still to do . The energies of all the races ...
... race is essentially a Unit , that it has been growing through all the centuries and is now ap- proaching the prime of its manhood , just ready to enter on its special career with its grandest work still to do . The energies of all the races ...
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... races - The first Migrations- Commencement of Civilization - China - The Euphrates - The Ham- ites in Egypt . SECTION ... race - Their Mythology and Heroic History - Their opposition to the dangerous centralizing tendencies of Monarchy ...
... races - The first Migrations- Commencement of Civilization - China - The Euphrates - The Ham- ites in Egypt . SECTION ... race - Their Mythology and Heroic History - Their opposition to the dangerous centralizing tendencies of Monarchy ...
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... races . race . 4. The first emigrations were made by the Turanian nations , which scattered very widely . Turanian means " out- side , " or " barbarian , " and was given by the later and better known races who found them , commonly in a ...
... races . race . 4. The first emigrations were made by the Turanian nations , which scattered very widely . Turanian means " out- side , " or " barbarian , " and was given by the later and better known races who found them , commonly in a ...
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... race , which made an irruption into Europe from Asia in the ninth century of the Christian era . The first appearance of this race in written history was in the establishment of a powerful empire at Babylon , which must have been ...
... race , which made an irruption into Europe from Asia in the ninth century of the Christian era . The first appearance of this race in written history was in the establishment of a powerful empire at Babylon , which must have been ...
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... race conquered the Turanians of Babylon , and established the largest dominion then known to men . The Chedor - Laomer of Abraham's day was one of its mightiest sovereigns , and ruled over a thickly - settled region a thousand miles in ...
... race conquered the Turanians of Babylon , and established the largest dominion then known to men . The Chedor - Laomer of Abraham's day was one of its mightiest sovereigns , and ruled over a thickly - settled region a thousand miles in ...
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