Excerpt from Elements of Universal History: For Higher Institutes in Republics, and for Self-Instruction The division Of the contents into periods, it seemed to me, considering the vast extent of the historical material, was very necessary in order to get a clear insight of the latter. If general history is written ethnographically, it hardly deserves its name, because the connection in which the actions and adventures of the nations (particularly since the migration of nations) are put to each other, is completely severed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.