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“_A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one--a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law._”--FRIEDRICH RA...
§ 1. _Princes and Foreign Policy._ § 2. _The English Republic._ § 3. _The Dutch Republic._ § 4. _The Break-up and Disorder of Germany._ § 5. _The Splendours of Grand Monarchy in...
35. BOOK IVWe are now in a position to place in their proper relationship to this general outline of human history the Israelites, and the most remarkable collection of ancient documents i...
54. BOOK IX§1. _The Possible Unification of Men’s Wills in Political Matters._ §2. _How a Federal World Government may come about._ §3. _Some Fundamental Characteristics of a Modern World...
36. BOOK V§ 1. _The Beginnings of the Latins._ § 2. _A New Sort of State._ § 3. _The Carthaginian Republic of Rich Men._ § 4. _The First Punic War._ § 5. _Cato the Elder and the Spirit of...
52. BOOK VII§ 1. _Asia at the end of the Twelfth Century._ § 2. _The Rise and Victories of the Mongols._ § 3. _The Travels of Marco Polo._ § 4. _The Ottoman Turks and Constantinople._ § 5....
51. BOOK VI (_Continued_)§ 1. _Arabia before Muhammad._ § 2. _Life of Muhammad to the Hegira._ § 3. _Muhammad becomes a Fighting Prophet._ § 4. _The Teachings of Islam._ § 5. _The Caliphs Abu Bekr and O...
38. BOOK VI§ 1. _Judea at the Christian Era._ § 2. _The Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth._ § 3. _The New Universal Religions._ § 4. _The Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth._ § 5. _Doctrines ad...
32. BOOK IIThe origin of man is still very obscure. It is commonly asserted that he is “descended” from some man-like ape such as the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, or the gorilla, but that...
33. BOOK IIIWe have spoken of the Aryan language as probably arising in the region of the Danube and South Russia and spreading from that region of origin. We say “probably,” because it is...
55. chapter I on the differences between ancient (pre-Athenian) thought andmodern thought. The former he calls Undirected Thinking, the latter Directed Thinking. The former was a thinking in images, akin to dreaming; the latter a thinking in words. Sci...
31. BOOK ISpace is, for the most part, emptiness. At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the “fixed stars.” They are all moving about in space,...
34. v. 1) how the Ark of the Covenant of the God of the Hebrews was carriedoff by the Philistines, as a token of conquest, into the temple of the fish god, Dagon, at Ashdod, and how Dagon fell down and was broken, and how the people of Ashdod were smit...
37. Chapter XV, and that, in spite of their profound racial and linguisticdifferences, they mixed with the nomadic and semi-nomadic residuum of the Aryan races north of the Danube and Persia very easily and successfully. Instead of killing, they enlis...
1. VOLUME I“_A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence...
30. CHAPTER XXXI. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA (CIRCA 50 B.C. TO A.D. 650)50. CHAPTER XLI. MAN’S COMING OF AGE. THE PROBABLE STRUGGLE49. CHAPTER XL. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914 AND THE48. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATION OF THE NINETEENTH41. CHAPTER XXXIII. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES46. CHAPTER XXXVII. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA44. CHAPTER XXXV. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION45. CHAPTER XXXVI. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS43. CHAPTER XXXIV. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS29. CHAPTER XXX. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DIVISIONS26. CHAPTER XXVII. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS15. CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS21. CHAPTER XXII. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS40. CHAPTER XXXII. MUHAMMAD AND ARAB ISLAM27. CHAPTER XXVIII. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR18. CHAPTER XIX. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS19. CHAPTER XX. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS22. CHAPTER XXIII. GREEK THOUGHT AND LITERATURE23. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT28. CHAPTER XXIX. THE CÆSARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT13. CHAPTER XIV. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND47. CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE25. CHAPTER XXVI. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM39. VOLUME II9. CHAPTER X. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST12. CHAPTER XIII. THE RACES OF MANKIND10. CHAPTER XI. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE6. CHAPTER VII. THE AGE OF MAMMALS11. CHAPTER XII. EARLY THOUGHT5. CHAPTER VI. THE AGE OF REPTILES7. CHAPTER VIII. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN20. CHAPTER XXI. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS16. CHAPTER XVII. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES4. CHAPTER V. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE8. CHAPTER IX. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE. (THE17. CHAPTER XVIII. WRITING24. CHAPTER XXV. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA14. CHAPTER XV. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES42. BOOK VII57. Volume II.2. CHAPTER II. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS56. Volume I.3. CHAPTER IV. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE