Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations

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LORD'S LECTURES
AUTHOR OF THE OLD ROMAN WORLD, MODERN EUROPE, ETC., ETC.
MARY PORTER LORD,
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP AND APPRECIATION
AS A DEVOTED WIFE
ENCOURAGED ME TO A LONG LIFE
OF HISTORICAL LABORS,
This Work
IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
In preparing a new edition of Dr. Lord's great work, the Beacon Lights of History, it has been necessary to make some rearrangement of lectures and volumes. Dr. Lord began with his volume on classic Antiquity, and not until he had completed five volumes did he return to the remoter times of Old Pagan Civilizations (reaching back to Assyria and Egypt) and the Jewish Heroes and Prophets. These issued, he took up again the line of great men and movements, and brought it down to modern days.