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Excerpt from Popular Studies of Ancient Peoples The study of the civilisations of these ancient peoples of their origin, their development, their eras of successful growth and prosperity, their decline and fall - is very interesting. For example, it shows how much like the life of an organic thing the life of a nation is; how it has its birth, its period of development and of maturity, and its death, just as any individual person. It leads one to believe that no people or nation can endure in its vigour forever - that Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, even our own loved country, will each in time make its exit from the great stage of the world's successful activity. A somewhat saddening, but not altogether unsalutary, lesson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.