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Excerpt from Hutchinson's Story of the Nations, Containing the Egyptians, the Chinese, India, the Babylonian Nation, the Hittites, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, the Phrygians, the Lydians, and Other Nations of Asia Minor A Philosopher once said that his heart was in the Past, his body in the Present, and his soul in the Future. He was not a humorist, nor was he indulging in a high-sounding phrase which should impress the ignorant. He was merely condensing into one sentence Man's debt to the Past, his identity with the Present, and his responsibilities to the Future. The story of how we make the future is Prophecy; the story of how the past makes us is History. When once we realize that we are ourselves the result of all that has gone before, History ceases to be a cold informal narrative and becomes a vivid intimate reality. But when we look back - perhaps fifty years - on our own life, it may be difficult to visualize it, to recall our wishes, feelings, and outlook under conditions that have changed. Still more difficult is it to realize the lives of our forefathers, where hearsay and reading are the substitutes for personal knowledge. 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.