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civilization, which itself may have fallen into de- 

 cline, or from which he may have wandered or 

 been driven out into the new and distant lands. 



"Above all else," says Dr. T. A. Clay, Profes- 

 sor of Oriental literature at Yale, "one of the 

 greatest surprises is that the earliest peoples, in- 

 stead of being barbarous and uncultured, were 

 civilized and possessed culture of a high order." 7 



The light is breaking. Again the Mosaic ac- 

 count is verified. As Dean Harris says in the 

 Ontario Archeological Report for 1917: "Assyri- 

 ologists and Egyptologists have opened new 

 avenues of exploration, and from the ruins of 

 buried cities proved the accuracy of the Mosaic 

 account of the Noachic Flood, the patriarchal 

 period and the Isaian prophecies. From the 

 monuments, clay tablets and 'Cuneiform scripts 

 now in the British museum, the Pierpont Morgan 

 and University of Pennsylvania treasures, and 

 from collections preserved in the libraries of the 

 universities of Europe and America, archeolo- 

 gists and oriental scholars assure us that the 

 records of the Old Testament are in accord with 

 many of the remarkable facts written on the 

 monuments recently uncovered in the historic 

 lands watered by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 



"The newly discovered tablets and terra-cotta 

 writings triumphantly bear witness to the truth of 



? "Pushing Back History's Horizons." 



