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The hand of Providence

Chapter 26: Transcriber's Note:
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About This Book

The work presents a compact, chronological survey that interprets key episodes of Western and Near Eastern history as guided by divine purpose. Beginning with the collapse of early Jewish and Christian institutions and the rise of Islam, it moves through medieval relic-worship and the Crusades, the Arabic and Jewish revival of learning, the Renaissance and invention of printing, the voyages of discovery and colonization, and the Reformation and political revolutions, combining narrative sketches of events with moral reflections and lessons aimed at young readers.

Transcriber's Note:

Some obvious printer's errors have been corrected as seemed reasonable, such as certain punctuation errors (like omitted periods, periods to commas or semi-colons to commas, and some mismatched quotation marks, etc.). Some inconsistent or obvious spelling errors or typos within the text were also corrected (e. g. , make to made, begining to beginning, conviced to convinced, satisfiy to satisfy, immedite to immediate, successsful to successful, maratime to maritime, gunpower to gunpowder, bowlder to boulder, asend to ascend, degardation to degradation, forgivness to forgiveness, en to ten, myrtyr to martyr, continet to continent, gratitute to gratitude, loyality to loyalty, philanthrophist to philanthropist, extavagant to extravagant, justifiying to justifying, weakend to weakened, Fich's to Fitch's, Reedemer to Redeemer, matyrdom to martyrdom, etc., etc.).

The book used as a reference for this e-book transcription originally belonged to O. N. Toomey, and was digitized by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. It can be viewed or downloaded free at https://archive.org/details/handofprovidence00award.