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Story of the Human Race
A Biographical History of the World
This gigantic work of scholarship, written in popular style for the masses instead of the dull pedants, contains 150,000 words, in five charming, entertaining and instructive books. This historical and biographical production is being printed on a good grade of paper, bound in attractive, artistic stiff covers, 5% by 8% inches.
Contents of These Five Books By Henry Thomas, Ph. D.
BOOK 1.
A Brief Survey of Early History. Moses, the Prince Who Became a Rebel. Jeremiah, the First Pacifist in History. Buddha, the Atheist Who Became a God. Confucius, the Spiritual Godfather of Christ.
Cyrus, Who Destroyed a Civilization. Pericles, the Popular Democrat of Athens.
Plato, Who Dreamed of a Better World. BOOK 2.
Alexander, Who Tried to Divide the World between God and Himself.
Epicurus, the Smiling Pessimist.
Hannibal, the Prince of Hatred.
Cato, the Champion Hypocrite.
Caesar, the Man Who Tried to Become a God.
Jesus, the Jewish Vagabond of Nazareth.
Nero, Who Murdered His Mother. Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor-Philosopher.
Constantine the Great, Who Murdered
His Son and Became a Christian. Mohammed, the Prophet of the Sword.
BOOK 3*
Charlemagne, Who Rescued a Pope and Became an Emperor.
Peter the Hermit, Who Slaughtered the Jews for the Love of Jesus.
Saint Francis of Assisi, a Catholic Anarchist.
Dante Allighieri, "the Voice of the
Silent Centuries." Marco Polo, the Link Between Europe
and Asia.
Petrarch, Johannes Huss and John Ball —Three Leaders of the Renaissance.
Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans and Mother of France.
Torqdemada and the Holy Inquisition.
Columbus, Who Didn't Discover America.
BOOK 4.
Martin Luther, the Peasant Who Defied
the Pope. Machiavelli, the Devil's Disciple. Shakespeare, the Creator of a New
World.
Louis XIV, the Most Famous of the
French Kings. George Fox, an Aggressive Fighter for
Peace.
Spinoza, the Quiet Little Jew of Amsterdam.
Voltaire, the "Black Sheep" of the
Human Family. Napoleon, Who Conquered the World
and Died in Exile.
BOOK 5.
Goethe— There Goes a Man! Mazzini, Italian Prophet of a United Europe.
Karl Marx, the Father of Socialism.
Bismarck, the Backward-Looking Chancellor of Prussia.
Charles Darwin, Who Introduced Us to Our Ancestors.
Abraham Lincoln, the Savior of the 6l3.cl£ Rs,c©
Tolstoy, Prophet of a World Without Hate.
Emperor William U, Last of the Kaisers.
Lenin and Gandhi, the Fore-Runners of a New Age.
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