 Salt also cited in his work that Manila had been called the “Nuremberg of the East.” He clarified that may be it entirely correct or not, it is at least "full of suggestions" as “She (Manila) alone, amid the hurry of twentieth century civilization, and the characteristics of the Orient, sits serene in the medieval grandeur.” The history, as Salt expounded, had the walls, the buildings, the squares and the streets as its witnesses.He had seen the city as an expression of life and growth, not mere arbitrary counters of thought.The prehistory of Manila is not only focused on how Manila came to being.