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ChaldAans .–Until the last half century
historians were accustomed to look back upon
the Greeks, who led the world from the fifth
to the third century B.C., as the pioneers of
art, literature, and science. But the exca-
vations and researches of later years make
us more ready to grant that in science as
in art the Greeks only developed what they
derived from the Egyptians, Babylonians,
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