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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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