In the treatment of this history we have allowed no space for mere opinions or speculations. The work is purely historical, and its text is illustrated only by that which is pertinent and well authenticated, in either geographic or archæological discovery.
The entire subject matter is divided into Periods and chapters and subdivided into sections and paragraphs, the latter presented in such a form as generally to suggest to the teacher the question and to the reader the topic of the paragraph.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
THE ANTE-DILUVIAN ERA.
Creation, Eden: Chronology and its Sources.
The Significance of Names.