As a study of an historic period, The Spanish Gypsy is not so great a success as Romola; yet it more perfectly unfolds a unitary moral purpose, and the various types of character are more originally developed.
She could not be content merely to absorb and reflect an historic period; but her active intellect, full of ideas concerning the causes of human changes, must give an explanation of what was before her.
As in the case of Romola, so here, an historic period is used, not so much for artistic as for philosophic purposes, because it is well designed to present her ideas about heredity and tradition.
We must, therefore, consider whether, and in what ways, the racial mental qualities of a people may have been changed during the nation-making or historic period.
Nevertheless, the extraction of copper from the ores is an operation of such a delicate character, that it must have been beyond the reach of the metallurgic appliances at the disposal of men during the early pre-historic period.
Archaeology and geology thus meet somewhere in the pre-historic period of the former, and in the Post-glacial of the latter.
This is at least the geological deluge which separates the Post-glacial period from the Modern, and the earlier from the later pre-historic period of the archaeologists.
It connects itself with the pre-historic period of the archaeologist, inasmuch as remains of man and his works are apparently included in the same deposits which hold the bones of Post-glacial animals.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "historic period" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
