The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell.

  • Bell, James, Major.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE V. general resemblance of manners and opinions; and along the whole extent of which, excepting in the transit across the subject province of Persia, the Arabian language had been adopted as the national tongue. And thus the earliest Oriental empire of modern time, far outstripping the ante- cedent empires of Cyrus and Alexander, might fairly compete in its diversified territorial magnitude with the widest extent of Koman rule in its proudest period of united grandeur. And if thus wonderful were the successes of the Arab arms, still more widely branched and far more permanently fixed have been the triumphs of the Arab faith; for even at this day, about a thousand years since the political empire of the Arabs was dissolved, the religion of Muhammad remains, nay, triumphantly prevails, from the Atlantic into the heart of India, and again southward into the centre of Africa. For the Arabs, who with one arm had uprooted the New-Persian Empire, and with the other wrested dominion out of the hands of the Komans, had at one point threatened to weigh down Christianity, while at another they attempted to subvert the firmly-organized and strongly-cemented religion of the Brahmans in India; and the Arab faith did, in effect, intermediately, almost wholly sweep away or scatter into fragments for ever the religion of Zer- dusht, or Zoroaster. It has indeed been roundly calculated, that Muhammadanism was at one period