Note 2 — FROM THE AUTHOR’S DEDICATION (1854)[2] TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE V, KING OF HANOVER

This dedication and the following preface apply to the whole work, of which the present volume contains the first book. The remaining books are occupied by a detailed examination of the civilizations mentioned at the end of this volume, and it is of these as well as the present book that the author is thinking, in his preface, when speaking of his imitators. A few passages in the dedication that relate exclusively to these books have been omitted.—Tr.