The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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CONCERNING HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

ern races of the world, with the exception of Jews, Turks,
Magyars, North American Indians, and some declining
remnants of peoples. They had fixed habitations on their
elevated plateau, kept herds, tilled the soil, were rich in
cattle, wrought in metals, spun and wove, made musical
instruments, calculated time by the movements of the
heavenly bodies, and cultivated affectionate and respectful
domestic relations.
As this table-land became densely peopled by the
natural growth of the human family, migrations were necessary. Sometimes they were occasioned by changes in
the level of the earth's surface, which made their rivers
waterless, and rendered life insupportable to themselves
and their herds. An army may pass from the Pacific to
the Atlantic, through Asia into Europe, without encountering any elevation of more than a few hundred feet. So
avoiding the mountains that could not be scaled, and the
rivers that could not be forded, great bodies of Oriental
emigrants moved out from Central Asia, to the East and
the South, but in yet larger numbers to the West, when
they passed over into Europe. Here they settled on the
first desirable territory, always finding men and women in
possession, which gives a hint of the antiquity of the race.
These they killed, enslaved, or incorporated among themselves,- sometimes carrying forward all three processes at
the same time.
The successive waves of migration took different routes,
one column going to the North, and the other to the South.
The climate of Europe was not the same then as now, for
geologists tell us that " since the tertiary period, two-thirds
of Europe have been lifted above the sea." The Alps have
been upheaved from two thousand to three thousand feet,
and the Appenines from one to two thousand feet. Those