THE H. M. Naques. ORIGIN OF NATIONS In Two Parts ON EARLY CIVILIZATIONS ON ETHNIC AFFINITIES, ETC. BY GEORGE RAWLINSON M. A. CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, OXFORD, AND CANON OF CANTERBURY NEW YORK: 743 and 745 BROADWAY, 1881. H.W. Haynes. Reel June 5, 1912 GKANT, FAIRES & RODGERS, Electrotypers & Printers, 52 & 54 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia PREFACE. THE following Essays were contributed, as occasional papers, to The Leisure Hour, in the course of the years 1875 and 1876. They have now been collected. and recast, at the instance of the Committee of the Religious Tract Society, in the hope that they may thereby obtain a permanency which the circumstances of the case do not permit to our periodical literature. As attacks on the credibility of the Biblemore especially of the earlier books-are now frequently made, not merely upon scientific, but also upon historical grounds, it seemed desirable that one whose business it is to make himself acquainted with all the ascertained facts of Ancient History, should state his impressions with regard to the bearing of modern discoveries in the historical field upon the authenticity of the Scripture narrative. Such a statement the present writer made sixteen |