Capitolo 18
but sees again weakly the contours of the fortieth century;
over it is both melancholy soon lost in night. But some short years ago,
men didn't think him/it possible to earn the further information.
With the materials by hand this could not be done. The triumph
some intellect was simply deferred, not hopelessly it rejected.
Geology was but starting only to do good its application to a place
among the sciences. This explained to equip the physical history of
the world as reads from the stones and quantity with times so enormous
and I lavish that we don't speak more than years, but of centuries.
And with the help of the Geology the great secretses were wrung from the
past, and new light was thrown on the mannerses and customs of
primitive man. This way the foundation for still another science was
staid, the called archaeology or the science of the Human Antiquities.
These two sciences of sister are the keys from which help that we don't have
only it acquired a lot of information of a past that an is seemed without hope
enigma--but, as Cristoforo Colombo on I waste him/it of waters you/he/she could perceive
earth's traces as he/she anchors invisible, so you can the present seekers
after trace of knowledge the signals of a satisfactory solution of
a lot of of the great questions related to the origin and history
of the enfeebled runs of humanity.
In whatever earth we start our investigations, we quickly come
on the evidences of an ancient life that it antedates from very everybody
historical information. Ancient Egypt has been a fertile theme
for the pen of antiquarians. The traveller has moralized on the
ruins of his/her past greatness and a lot of pointed illustrations of
the national growth and decadence have been deduced by its history.
Here is the place of an ancient civilization in which it was the
zenith of his/her power many centuries before Christ. The changes
those have passed on the earth since that duration is far more
marvelous that some attributed to the wand of the magician.
Nations have come and they have gone, and the earth of the Pharaohs has