Understand me--I do not say that it is so. None of us is able to tell how far man has been allowed to act of his own free will in forming his story on the earth, and in what chapters and pages of the story his acts have been determined by a Higher Power. We know that he is allowed much freedom. We are sure, too, that the freedom is not unlimited. Therefore it is impossible for us to tell, of any particular action or series of actions, whether they are all man's own or whether they have been arranged for him. I will only say this, that it looks to me very much as if it had been arranged that the Roman power, the Greek thought, and the Christian religion should come together just at this moment in our story and complete each other for the service of man. I say that it looks to me as if it were so. Do each of you think it out for yourself and see how it appears to you. {229} INDEX ABRAHAM, in Chaldæa, 55 Actium, battle of, 210 Æneas, 164 Agricultural Age, the, 4 Alexander, the Great, 155 _et seq._ death of, 158 his generals, 160 Animals, in Egypt, 14 _et seq._ Antony, 209 _et seq._ and Cleopatra, 210 Art, in Babylonia, 65 Assyria, rise of, 54, 67-68 fall of, 103 Astronomy, in Babylon, 59 BABYLONIA, 49 _et seq._ and Egypt, 25 Bast, the Cat-goddess, 34 Book of the Dead, the, 40 Bronze Age, the, 6 CÆSAR, JULIUS, 198 assassination of, 206 commands in Gaul, 199 crosses Rubicon, 200 defeats Pompey, 200 Dictator for life, 202 in Britain, 199 subdues Parthians, 201 Camels, in Egypt, 13 Carchemish, battles at, 104-5 Carthage, destruction of, 176 Carthaginians, 147 _et seq._ defeated by Gelo, 149 Cinna, 197 Cleopatra restored by Cæsar to throne, 201 and Antony, 210 Comitia, 179 _et seq._ Corn, in Egypt, 16 Costume, in Babylonia, 66 in Egypt, 38 _et seq._ Creation of World, Babylonian account of, 60 Crete, 76 _et seq._ Crœsus, king of Lydia, 117 Cuneiform writing, 69 _et seq._ Cyrus, the Persian, 111 _et seq._ sends back exiled Jews, 113 DELTA, the, 3 EGYPT, 11 _et seq._ hunting in, 15 Upper and Lower, 21 Egyptian religions, 27 _et seq._ Etruscans, the, 166 Euphrates, the, 2 Evans, Sir Arthur, 76 FAMOUS Romans, compared with Famous Greeks, 221 First Dynasty of Egyptian Kings, 21 Flood, the. Babylonian account of, 61 GELO, defeats Carthaginians, 149 Goats, in Egypt, 13 Gracchus, Tiberius and Caius, 194 Granicus, river, battle on, 157 Greece great men of, 139 Greek learning, philosophy, art, etc., 121 _et seq._ states, jealousy between, 145 _et passim_ states, downfall of Sparta, 145 warrior, 118 HANNIBAL, 173-4 Herodotus, 34, 146 Hieroglyphic, 36 Historians, Thucydides and Herodotus compared, 146 Horses, in battle, 89 Horus, Egyptian god, 31 Hunting Age, the, 4 Hyksos, the "Shepherd" Kings of Egypt, 23 IONIANS, the, 128 Ipsus, battle of, 160 Iron Age, the, 6 Isis, Egyptian goddess, 31 Israel, divided from Judah, 101 Issus, battle of, 157