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Excerpt from European History: Chiefly Ancient in Its Processes A keen and learned observer of historic events has declared that European History as recorded is a chaos. The expression is too sweeping, though it contains a good deal of truth. Europe in its career through time has certainly thrown off more History than any other continental division of the globe. All have to go to Europe for the study of the rise and evolution of History and of the historic consciousness. A leading question in this department of human knowledge would seem to be. 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.