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The Last Periods will also be sent as a specimen of the entire work; yet they will give but an imperfect idea of the Universal History as a whole. As such, we claim for it, the first. Clear and logical arrangement of the subject - adopted by the author without precedent, but with conclusive reasons. Instead of dividing the long line of time into ancient and modern, with the uncertain period of the middle ages coming in definitely between, and instead of taking for the beginning of modern his tory, either the vague period of the revival of learning, or the close of an empire long in hopeless decay, our plan boldly cuts the line of time into three definite parts - ancient, middle, and modern - by the two most important epochs of history, viz.: the birth of Christ and the discovery of America. Each part was then easily subdivided into its appropriate periods by epochs. 1't firly' geographical extension of the world is, at the places of these (113mm: shown to the eye by a series of maps; and the memory is farther aided by pictorial illustrations. The dates are made in heavy type on the margins. The dynasties of the reigning sovereigns are also set on the margin, but distinguished by running lengthwise of the page; the battle-fields, with the known numbers of contending forces and their losseshare also placed there, but with a peculiar type, and the treaties with still another; and these peculiar characters are kept in the chrono logical table. Thus each page becomes a species of picture, leaving its daguerrean impression on the mind of the student.

The grand problem, what is the true method of representing historic time by space, was solved by the completion of the Temple of Time, of which the first conception was formed in the arrangement of this work, and the first published sketch is the frontispiece, and its enlarged floor work, called a Picture of Nations, precedes the chronological table.

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