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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia

CHAPTER III
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CHARACTER, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, DRESS, ETC., OF THE PEOPLE.
"I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last."-- Dan.

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The ethnic identity of the Persian people with the Medes, and the inclusion of both nations in that remarkable division of the human race which is known to ethnologers as the Ipanic or Arian, have been maintained in a former volume.

To the arguments there adduced it seems unnecessary to add anything in this place, since at the present day neither of the two positions appears to be controverted.


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