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A discussion of the cause, character and operations of the creator; what and where is God? - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...All are sand except a few in the city of Tangiers and on a plain around it. A wonderful fact is for you, good patron, if you will give our comment attention, and it will clear up the history of all the countries of Africa, for you can get it all in a single chapter of our work and in this chapter. A Roman was a descendant of the colony of decamping Caucasians, from what was Carthage under the Arabs. The Spaniard was a descendant of the colony of decamped Caucasians from the country of Mauritania, as it was called by the Romans. All the histories of the world cannot furnish a particle of information upon the question of the origin of the Spanish and Roman people. A guess is all that is given, and the guess is a mistake. Every historian knows that the people were of the same origin or race, and that their language was the same, and that all their towns or cities were given similar names, but no clue to the commencement of the origin of the people has ever been obtained. All historians are supposing that the Carthagenians were white people, and that they became absorbed by the Roman nation in time, and thus obliterated as a distinct nation. The few Arabs who were not destroyed by the Romans continued to occupy the country, and up to this day their descendants are on it. They were but Arabs, and as much cultivated as other Arabs, and no more so. All their cities were built by Caucasians, and they were in a poor condition when the Romans conquered the country. When the people obtained a considerable acquaintance with the use of arms, as they did in the days of the first Punic war, they came into Spain and conquered the country, and then into Italy and conquered all of it but the city of Rome and the lower part of the peninsula. This was performed under the leade...
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