IV CONTENTS. 



Pag 



Introduction of Hot-houses in our Gardens 91 



The Treasures open to the Landscape Painter in the Tropics. . . 93 



The Perfection of Art in Greece 94 



The Condition of Art in more Modern Times 95 



Tropical Scenery 96 



Panoramas ....* 98 



III. Cultivation of Tropical Plants. Contrasts and Assemblages 

 of Vegetable Forms. Impressions induced by the Physiognomy 



and Character of the Vegetation 99105 



Cultivation of Exotic Plants 99 



Eastern Gardens 101 



Chinese Parks and Gardens 103 



Physiognomy of Nature 105 



PART II. 



HISTORY OF THE PHYSICAL CONTEMPLATION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



PRINCIPAL, CAUSES OF THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXTEN- 

 SION OF THE IDEA OF THE COSMOS AS A NATURAL WHOLE 106118 



The Knowledge of Nature among the Ancients 108 



Events which have been the Means of extending a Knowledge 



of Nature 109 



Comparative Philology Ill 



The Idea of the Unity of the Cosmos 113 



History based on Human Testimony knows of no Primitive Race 114 



Ancient Seats of Civilization 117 



PRINCIPAL MOMENTA THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE HISTORY OF 



THE PHYSICAL CONTEMPLATION OF THE UNIVERSE 119 



I. The Mediterranean considered as the Starting-point 119153 



Civilization in the Valley of the Nile 124 



The Cultivation of the Phoenicians 128 



The Amber Trade 131 



The geographical Myth of the Elysion 133 



The Expeditions of Hiram and Solomon 136 



The Ophir (El Dorado) of Solomon 138 



The Etruscans 139 



The highly-gifted Hellenic Races 140 



The Landscape of Greece 143 



The three Events which extended the Knowledge of the Universe 144 



The Extent of Inland Traffic 146 



The Doric Migrations 148 



Contact with the East 149 



The Passage beyond the Pillars of Hercules 151 



II. Expeditions of the Macedonians under Alexander the Great 153169 

 The Foundation of Greek Cities in Asia 1 53 



