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In preparing a new edition of Dr. Lord's great work, the "Beacon Lights of History," it has been necessary to make some rearrangement of lectures and volumes. Dr. Lord began with his volume on classic "Antiquity," and not until he had completed five volumes did he return to the remoter times of "Old Pagan Civilizations" (reaching back to Assyria and Egypt) and the "Jewish Heroes and Prophets." These issued, he took up again the line of great men and movements, and brought it down to modern days. The "Old Pagan Civilizations," of course, stretch thousands of years before the Hebrews, and the volume so entitled would. | 1 Beacon Lights of History Volume 01 A free download from http Beacon Lights of History Volume 01 The Project Gutenberg eBook Beacon Lights of History Volume I by John Lord This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Beacon Lights of History Volume I Author John Lord Release Date December 16 2003 eBook 10477 Language English Character set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME I E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Charlie Kirschner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team LORD S LECTURES BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME I Beacon Lights of History Volume 01 THE OLD PAGAN CIVILIZATIONS. 2 BY JOHN LORD . AUTHOR OF THE OLD ROMAN WORLD MODERN EUROPE ETC. ETC. To the Memory of MARY PORTER LORD WHOSE FRIENDSHIP AND APPRECIATION AS A DEVOTED WIFE ENCOURAGED ME TO A LONG LIFE OF HISTORICAL LABORS This Work IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PUBLISHERS NOTE. In preparing a new edition of Dr. Lord s great work the Beacon Lights of History it has been necessary to make some rearrangement of lectures and volumes. Dr. Lord began with his volume on classic Antiquity and not until he had completed five volumes did he return to the remoter times of Old Pagan Civilizations reaching back to Assyria and Egypt and the Jewish Heroes and Prophets. These issued he took up again the line of great men and movements and brought it down to modern days. The Old Pagan Civilizations of course stretch thousands of years before the Hebrews and the volume so entitled would naturally be the first. Then follows the volume on Jewish Heroes and Prophets ending with St. Paul and the Christian Era. After this volume which in any position dealing with the unique race of the Jews must stand