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Excerpt from European History: Chiefly Ancient in Its Processes It is also to be noted that an American or an Oriental will each vlew Europe in his own way, and both ways will be different from that of the native European. Each must interpreta for eign institutional world through his own. The same outline of facts will not only have different meanings, but also be organized differently by each. It needs but little intercourse with the Oriental mind to come upon its basic belief that the rest of the world Springing from Asia is an emanation from the central sun of the East, and really a falling-off, a lapse from the original creative source. That indeed has been the main tenet of the religions of the East amid all their diversities. On the other hand it requires not much acquaintance with the American mind to discover that its conviction is the opposite: it believes in evolution rather than emanation, in the rise of man more than the fall. Now peo ple of these diverse mental attitudes will cer tainly look at the History of Europe, the inter mediate and indeed mediating continent, each after his own character and limitations. 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.