. The eastern nations and Greece. Fig. 52. Assyrians Flaying Prisoners Alive. (From a bas-relief) The significant thing here is that the king exults in having donethese things and thinks to immortalize himself by portraying themupon imperishable stone. The careful way in which to-day all refer-ence to atrocities of this character, when in the fury of battle they. Fig. 53. Lion Hunt. (From Nineveh) are inflicted upon an enemy, are suppressed by those responsible forthem, and the indignant condemnation of them by the public opinionof the civilized world, measures the moral progress humanity hasm
. The eastern nations and Greece. Fig. 52. Assyrians Flaying Prisoners Alive. (From a bas-relief) The significant thing here is that the king exults in having donethese things and thinks to immortalize himself by portraying themupon imperishable stone. The careful way in which to-day all refer-ence to atrocities of this character, when in the fury of battle they. Fig. 53. Lion Hunt. (From Nineveh) are inflicted upon an enemy, are suppressed by those responsible forthem, and the indignant condemnation of them by the public opinionof the civilized world, measures the moral progress humanity hasmade even along those lines on which progress has been so pain-fully slow and halting. * Records of the Past (New Series), vol. ii, pp. 143 ff- 74 THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE [§ 72 72. Royal Sports. The Assyrian king gloried in being, like thegreat Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. In his inscrip-tions the wild beasts he has slain are as carefully enumerated as thecities he has captured. The monuments are covered with sculpturesthat represent the king engaged in this favorite royal sport of theOrient. We see him slaying lions, bulls, and boars, as well as lessdangerous animals of the chase, with which the uncultivated tractsof the country appear to have abounded. 73. Services Rendered Civilization by Assyria. Assyria did a worklike that done by Rome at a l
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