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MEMOIR OF COLONEL GEORGE MACDONELL, C.B., xix

I. THE LAW OF NATIONS, 1

II. THE LAW OF NATURE, 20

III. PRIMITIVE LIFE, 26

IV. CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TRADITION, 55

V. CHRONOLOGY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SCIENCE, 72

VI. PALMER ON EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY, 92

VII. THE TRADITION OF THE HUMAN RACE, 105

VIII. MYTHOLOGY, 157

IX. ASSYRIAN MYTHOLOGY, 182

X. THE TRADITION OF NOAH AND THE DELUGE, 210

XI. DILUVIAN TRADITIONS IN AFRICA AND AMERICA, 242

XII. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON TRADITION, 283

XIII. NOAH AND THE GOLDEN AGE, 323

XIV. SIR H. MAINE ON THE LAW OF NATIONS, 338

XV. THE DECLARATION OF WAR, 386