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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-&) Greece—The Creation Legend 155 grandchildren of old Uranus, were Prometheus and Epimetheus, Forethoughtand Afterthought. They aided Jupiter in his war against the older gods, forPrometheus clearly foresaw its issue. When Jupiter was victorious, he set thetwo brothers to creating subjects for him upon earth. Epimetheus rushedeagerly into the work and made all the animals, endowing one with the greatestswiftness, another with supreme strength, and so on, till there were no superla-tive qualities left. Meanwhile Prometheus, going more slowly and earnestlyto work, made man out of the earth itself. He copied his creature in figureafter the gods, and set him upright, so that while the other animals looked down-ward and saw the earth, man looked upward and saw the heavens. ThenPrometheus, finding no superlative physical qualities left to bestow upon hiscreature, took fire from the sun and gave that to man, so that by its use hecould conquer all things for himself, force earth to gi

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  • bookauthor:Horne__Charles_F___Charles_Francis___1870_1942
  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Niglutsch
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:478
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
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