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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. How can we know that which our predecessors have known? By study ing the records of them learning, and by scientific research. Scientific research constantly enlarges the boundary of knowledge; and increases true learning. Varo divided the past ages of the world into three periods: the unknown, the fabulous and the historical. The first period lies buried in the silence and oblivion of remote antiquity. Fracti cally the only hints of it, preserved to us at the present time, are contained in the Hebrew Scriptures. The second period we find described by ancient poets suchas Homer and Hesiod, and others who wrote in a day even more remote. The third period is recorded in historical writings, to which we may refer with reasonable certainty.