Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Universal History: Comprising Tabular Views of Contemporaneous Events in All Ages, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Arranged Chronologically and Alphabetically
The great objects held in view were to present simultaneously to the eye of the reader the chief contemporaneous events in the history of the world, divested as much as possible of reflection and inference, yet clearly showing the tendency and progress of each nation in connection with all - to give a full and fair record of facts, so arranged that the widening circle of their effects might be readily traced by a thinking mind to furnish the well-read historian with a remembrancer, and the unread student with a book of reference, wherein he could, at a moment's notice, ascertain the events amid which an individual life was passed - the circumstances which rendered a particular era remarkable - the date of any important or curious fact in War, Statesmanship, Science, Art, Religious development, &c., wherein, too, he could trace their antecedents and sequences, though his memory might afford but a slight clue to the discovery of those precise periods, acts, or dates.
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