The Historians'' History of the World Vol. 2 of 25: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages; Israel India Persia Phoenicia Minor Nations of Western Asia

Excerpt from The Historians'' History of the World Vol. 2 of 25: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages; Israel India Persia Phoenicia Minor Nations of Western Asia<br><br>Translated for the present work from Geschichte des Volks Israel.<br><br>Many a nation has walked God''s earth has long enjoyed its good things has come into being and passed away without our knowing anything Of its history or even whether it had a history at all. For no nation has a history except one that makes history that is to say that in?uences the course of human development. It is with races as with individuals; none is kept in mind by posterity save those who have distinguished themselves by ideas that have modified the life of mankind or (which comes to the same thing) have been pioneers in fresh fields Of action. The greater the Spiritual gain a nation has brought to the rest of the world the longer and more steadily its life has ?owed in the channels it was the first to make the longer is its history told among them. The nations of history are those which have put forward in one fashion or another their claim to the dominion of the world.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.