Introduction
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Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander)
These civilizations of the old world, among which the Mesopotamian and the Nilotic were the earliest, were built on no unsound foundations. They made possible "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome", and it is only within recent years that we have begun to realize how incalculable is the debt which the modern world owes to them.
Figure 2. BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA
Source notes
[3]Revelation, xviii. The Babylon of the Apocalypse is generally believed to symbolize or be a mystic designation of Rome.
[4]Nineveh and Its Remains, vol. i, p. 17.
[5]Ezra, iv, 10.
[6] The culture god.
[7] Langdon's Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 179.
[8]Crete the Forerunner of Greece, p. 18.
[9]The Scapegoat vol., p. 409 (3rd edition).
[10]The Seven Tablets of Creation, L. W. King, p. 129.
[11]Ibid, pp. 133-4.