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In preparing the new edition of Dr. Lord's great work, it has been thought desirable to do what the venerable author's death in 1894 did not permit him to accomplish, and add a volume summarizing certain broad aspects of achievement in the last fifty years. It were manifestly impossible to cover in any single volume--except in the dry, cyclopaedic style of chronicling multitudinous facts, so different from the vivid, personal method of Dr. Lord--all the growths of the wonderful period just closed. The only practicable way has been to follow our author's principle of portraying selected historic forces,--to take, as representative or typical of the. | Beacon Lights of History Volume 14 1 A free download from http BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME Ĩ 4 JOHN LORD Part I. presenting the Part IV. a treatise on Part I. form the first volume were issued in 1892 Parts V. and VI. which Part IV. constitute the second Beacon Lights of History Volume 14 The Project Gutenberg eBook Beacon Lights of History Volume XIV 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 XIV Author John Lord Release Date January 9 2004 eBook 10649 Language English Character set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME XIV E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Charlie Kirschner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Beacon Lights of History Volume 14 2 LORD S LECTURES BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME XIV THE NEW ERA A Supplementary Volume by Recent Writers as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents. BY JOHN LORD . AUTHOR OF THE OLD ROMAN WORLD MODERN EUROPE ETC. ETC. PUBLISHERS PREFACE. In preparing the new edition of Dr. Lord s great work it has been thought desirable to do what the venerable author s death in 1894 did not permit him to accomplish and add a volume summarizing certain broad aspects of achievement in the last fifty years. It were manifestly impossible to cover in any single volume--except in the dry cyclopaedic style of chronicling multitudinous facts so different from the vivid personal method of Dr. Lord--all the growths of the wonderful period just closed. The only practicable way has been to follow our author s principle of portraying selected historic forces --to take as representative or typical of the various departments certain great characters whose services have signalized them as Beacon