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Excerpt from Invention, the Master-Key to Progress The author is indebted to Ginn 8: Company, Boston, for the use of illustrations from General History for Colleges and High Schools, by Philip Van Ness Myers, and Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, by James Henry Breasted, and to George H. Doran Company, New York, for the use of a map from A History of Sea Power, by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott. 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.