Children's stories of American progress . en the different peoples of theearth had Qathered themselves into villages andcities and nations, and had learned to regardone another with feelings of friendship or en-mity, as the case might be, the necessity foreasy and safe modes of travelling became verygreat. Trade was established between friendly na-tions, and war was constantly being waged be-tween nations hostile to each other, and fromboth these reasons travelling grew into an art,and was considered as much a part of civilizedlife as anything else could be. In the valleys and plains of Asia,

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Children's stories of American progress . en the different peoples of theearth had Qathered themselves into villages andcities and nations, and had learned to regardone another with feelings of friendship or en-mity, as the case might be, the necessity foreasy and safe modes of travelling became verygreat. Trade was established between friendly na-tions, and war was constantly being waged be-tween nations hostile to each other, and fromboth these reasons travelling grew into an art, and was considered as much a part of civilizedlife as anything else could be. In the valleys and plains of Asia, wheretrade was carried on chiefly by means of thegreat rivers and canals, the cities held easycommunication with one another and with thecities of the coast, and the purple cloth of Tyrefound its way into kings houses afar off, andthe giant cedars of Lebanon floated down thewidening tides to form pillars and thrones inthe royal palaces of alien people. But as empires grew, and the earth becamerilled with inhabitants, and the knowledge of. !