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The greatest story in the world is the story of mankind around the / Mediterranean Sea. The reason why it is so great a story for us is / that it is really our own story. It is the story of the doings of / mankind from the earliest date at which we know anything at all about / man; and it is the story of the doings which have made you and me / what we are to-day, and have made our lives what they are.
You must first look at the world map to understand the story / properly. Take out the atlas or the globe of the world, and have a / look at the Mediterranean Sea as shown upon it. You will see how / very little space this sea occupies in comparison with the whole. / And I want you to observe this very particularly, because, as I hope / to show you, small though this space is, it is the space in, or / closely around, which nearly the whole story of man on the world, so / far as we know it, was made up to -- what date shall we say? -- only a / few hundred years ago -- say the date of Columbus' discovery of / America. If you know the story of what happened in and about the / Mediterranean {2} Sea, you will know nearly all that anybody does / know of the really important things that men did in the world up to / the date of our Queen Elizabeth.