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Before that vast period of separate existence, the sun and earth and the other planets that circulate round the sun may have been a great swirl of diffused matter in space. The telescope reveals to us in various parts of the heavens luminous spiral clouds of matter, the spiral nebulae, which appear to be in rotation about a centre. It is supposed by many astronomers that the sun and its planets were once such a spiral, and that their matter has undergone concentration into its present form. Through majestic aeons that concentration went on until in that vast remoteness of the past for which we have given figures, the world and its moon were distinguishable. They were spinning then much faster than they are spinning now; they were at a lesser distance from the sun; they travelled round it very much faster, and they were probably incandescent or molten at the surface. The sun itself was a much greater blaze in the heavens.
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Hadrian, 174, 430
Halicarnassus, 138
Hamburg, 294
Hamitic people, 71
Hammurabi, 90, 92, 104, 429
Han dynasty, 196, 200, 245, 430
Hannibal, 182
Hanover, Elector of, 327
Harding, President, 425
Harold Hardrada, 266
Harold, King of England, 266
Haroun-al-Raschid, 267, 432
Hastings, battle of, 266
Hastings, Warren, 333
Hatasu, Queen of Egypt, 96
Hathor, 209
Heaven, Kingdom of, 216, 217
Hebrew Bible, 1, 115, 116. (Cf. Bible)
Hebrew literature, 100
Hebrews, 100, 115. (See also Jews)
Hegira, 431
Heidelberg man, 45
Heliolithic culture, 69, 71, 167, 174
Heliolithic peoples, 107
Hellenic tribes, 100. (See also Greeks)
Hellespont, 430, 431
Helots, 130, 203
Hen. (See Fowl)
Henry IV, King, 274
Henry VI, Emperor, 279
Henry VIII, King of England, 310, 312, 313, 324, 433
Henry the Fowler, 265, 432
Heraclea, battle of, 178, 430
Heraclitus of Ephesus, 132, 156, 161
Heraclius, Emperor, 243, 247, 253, 431
Herat, 148
Herbivorous reptiles, 28
Hercules, Pillars of, (See Gibraltar)
Hero, 151, 152
Herodotus, 138, 139
Herophilus, 151
Hiero, 182
Hieroglyphics, 79, 124
Hildebrand. (See Gregory VII)
Himalayas, the, 37
Hipparchus, 151
Hippopotamus, 43
Hiram, King of Sidon, 118, 119, 122
History of Charles V, 316
Hittites, 96, 97, 98, 108
Hohenstaufens, 283
Holland, 306, 344, 347, 394, 396, 402, 433, 434
Holstein, 351
Holy Alliance, 349
Holy Roman Empire, 264, 309, 317, 323, 347, 377, 409, 432, 434
Homer, 129
Honorius, 230, 431
Honorius III, Pope, 281
Horse, 51, 56, 94, 96, 97, 112, 167, 319, 336; evolution of the, 42
Horsetails, 23
Horus, 209, 210, 211
Hottentots, 54
Hsia, 287
Hudson Bay Company, 393
Hudson River, 358
Hulagu Khan, 290, 433
Human sacrifice, 182, 186. (Cf. Blood Sacrifice, Sacrifice)
Hungarians, 263, 289, 351
Hungary, 185, 203, 227, 245, 258, 263, 289, 290, 292, 310, 312, 351
Hungary, plain of, 234
Huns, 88, 167, 168, 174, 197, 198, 227, 232, 233, 245, 263, 289, 431
Hunting, 56
Huss, John, 304, 433
Hussites, 305
Hwang-ho river, 173
Hwang-ho valley, 300
Hyksos, 90, 96
Hyracodons, 42
Hystaspes, 430
I
Iberians, 71, 92
Ice age, 43. (Cf. Glacial ages)
Iceland, 263
Ichthyosaurs, 29, 36
Ignatius of Loyola, St., 308, 434
Iliad, 127
Illinois, 386
Illyria, 179, 182
Immolation of human beings, 102
Immortality, idea of, 210, 211, 224
Imperialism, 399
Implements, 46, 48, 56, 57, 65, 87
Implements, use of, by animals, 44, 45
India, 71, 84, 104, 108, 122, 149, 156, 163, 164, 196, 199, 287, 302, 335, 394- 95, 399, 409, 433, 434
Indian Empire, 405
Indian Ocean, 329
Indiana, 383, 386
Individualists, 375 et seq.
Individuality in reproduction, 16 et seq.
Indo-Scythians, 199, 430
Indus, 149, 429
Industrial revolution, 365 et seq.
Infantry, 178
Influenza, 414
Innocent III, Pope, 276, 279, 280, 432
Innocent IV, Pope, 281
Innsbruck, 313
Inquisition, the, 276, 349
Insects, 26, 31
Interdicts, papal, 275
Interglacial period, 44
Internationalism, 380
Invertebrata, 13
Investitures, 275
Ionic Greeks, 108, 130
Iowa, 385
Ireland, 106, 405
Iron, 80, 87, 94, 97, 102, 104, 168, 319, 321, 358, 359
Irrigation, 290
Isabella of Castile, Queen, 293, 302, 309
Isaiah, 125, 133, 156
Isis, 209, 210, 211, 212
Islam, 251, 252, 432
Islamism, 267, 319. (See also Moslem, Muhammedanism)
Isocrates, 145
Israel, judges of, 118
Israel, kings of, 118, 119, 121
Issus, battle of, 147, 430
Italian language, 203
Italians, 107, 351
Italica, 202
Italy, 94, 108, 129, 134, 176, 180, 230, 236, 312, 327, 347, 390, 396, 409, 411, 429, 431, 434
Italy, Central, 429
Italy, North, 263, 312, 351, 390, 429, 431
Italy, South, 429
Ivan III (the Great), 327, 433
Ivan IV (the Terrible), 327, 433
J
Jacobin republic, 434
Jamaica, 393, 407
James I, King of England and Scotland, 324, 433
Jamestown (Va.), 433
Japan, 166, 300, 399, 400-01 et seq., 409, 410, 435
Japanese, 419
Jarandilla, 315
Java, 302, 329
Jaw-bone, Heidelberg, 45-46; Piltdown, 46
Jehovah, 125
Jena, 434
Jengis Khan, 287, 298, 334, 432
Jerusalem, 115, 116, 119, 121, 123, 124, 184, 215, 243, 267, 271, 272, 299, 431, 432
Jerusalem, Temple of, 119, 184
Jesuits, 308, 400, 433
Jesus, life and teaching of, 214 et seq., 224, 270, 306, 374, 430
Jews, 123, 124, 147, 184, 213, 215, 255, 256, 270, 294
Jews, early history of, 115 et seq.
Jews, literature of, 115
Jewish religion and sacred books, 116
John III of Poland, 434
John XI, Pope, 272
John XII, Pope, 272, 432
Joppa, 117
Joseph, King of Spain, 349, 434
Josiah, King of Judah, 110, 115, 116, 429
Judah, 115, 119
Judah, kings of, 119
Judea, 115, 183, 214
Judea, priests and prophets in, 122 et seq.
Judges, book of, 117
Judges of Israel, 118
Jugo-Slavia, 354
Jugo-Slavs, 351
Jugurtha, 192
Julian the Apostate, 431
Julius III, 316
Junks, Chinese, 400
Jupiter (god),
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