The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Persia Past and Present, Zoroaster.] ,HUS saith Cyrus, king of Persia; All the kingdoms ofthe earth hath the Lord God of heaven given are
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Persia Past and Present, Zoroaster.] ,HUS saith Cyrus, king of Persia; All the kingdoms ofthe earth hath the Lord God of heaven given are the opening words, according to the Bible, ofthe celebrated decree which proclaimed that a new dayhad dawned upon earth, a more generous and morehuman era had begun for mankind. When Cyrus, withhis Persians, conquered Babylon, the thousands ofyears of Semitic rulership of the world ceased, and dominionpassed into the hands of the earliest of the Aryan the leading nations of today are of Aryan stock. Let us,therefore, mark and remember that year of Cyruss triumph andof his great decree (538 ); for the decree proclaimed peace-and mercy to the spirit of Semitic dominion under Babylon and Assyria hadbeen almost inconceivably cruel. The people must, argues one ofour historians, have been pecuharly unimaginative, that is wholly unable torealize within themselves the agony of their victims, else they could never have. j^ The Story of the Greatest Nations ;^ inflicted upon entire nations such hideous pangs of bodily torture. The Persianswere cruel, too, if judged by our modern views; but they were not wantonlyso. Physical torture was employed by them only as a punishment for thosewho had been convicted of serious crimes. Moreover, the religious spirit ofall the early Aryans seems to have been one of general toleration, as opposedto the narrow Semitic spirit. Almost every Semitic people had regarded them-selves as the chosen people of their own particular
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