A Story Outline of Evolution 



required the labor of 100,000 men for a period of ten years 

 to construct a road from the Arabian stone quarries over 

 which the stones were dragged or rolled that were used in 

 building the Pyramid that was to shelter the soul of the 

 cruel King Cheops. 



The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, King Solomon's 

 Temple, King Sargon's Palace, the Palace of the Persian 

 King Darius etc., are examples of the vanity of the early 

 rulers of Western Asia. Millions of men were worked 

 under the lash like dumb animals to satisfy the vanity of 

 those who ruled by divine right. The ancient architecture 

 of these massive buildings had reached a degree of perfec- 

 tion that, perhaps, is unsurpassed today with all the heritage 

 that has come to us through the centuries of the past. It is 

 recorded that in one of these the reward that the master 

 architect received was that his eyes were punched out in 

 order that he might never again erect another so beautiful 

 and pleasing. 



Before written history began, the art of building had 

 reached a high state of advancement and in no place In all 

 the world had it reached a higher degree of perfection than 

 it had on the island of Crete. The Cretan kings flourished 

 for a period of about 1600 years, beginning, so far as our 

 knowledge goes, about 5,000 years ago. They were the 

 first to use a system of plumbing In their castles and used 

 fine cut stones and brick for building materials. At that 

 early day, they made use of highly colored porcelain tiles 

 and crystal panels. The vastness of these Cretan palaces 

 stagger our imagination in these modern times. The walls 



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