FOREWORD.

INTRODUCTION.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS.

CHAPTER II. MAN'S FIRST WEAPONS THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE

CHAPTER III. THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND

CHAPTER IV. THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.

CHAPTER V. THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS [242] BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD.

CHAPTER VI. THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.

CHAPTER VII. THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT?

CHAPTER VIII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA.

CHAPTER IX. THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN;

CHAPTER X. THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.

CHAPTER XI. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENAE.

CHAPTER XII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME; THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR.

CHAPTER XIII. THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE).

CONCLUSION.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

‘He that hath no Sword (-knife = ‘‘But, above all, it is most conducive to the greatness of empire for a nation to profess the skill of arms as its principal glory and most honourable employ.’
Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, viii. 3.