History of Civilization
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The 13th, Greatest of CenturiesThe Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number,...
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Studies in Mediæval Life and LiteratureStudies in Mediæval Life and LiteratureEdward Tompkins McLaughlin, the writer of the essays contained in this volume, was born at Sharon, Connecticut, on May 28, 1860. He was the son of the Reverend D. D. T. McLaughlin, a graduate of Yale College of the...
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The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of RacesThe Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races - With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of MankindWITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THEIR RESPECTIVE INFLUENCE IN THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF MANKIND. FROM THE FRENCH OF COUNT A. DE...
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The Century of ColumbusThe Century of Columbus To many people the date of the discovery of America must seem somewhat out of place. At least it must be hard for them to understand just how it came about that before the fifteenth century closed so great a...
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History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2)History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) - Revised EditionTranscribers' note: The INDEX of this eBook also covers PG-eBook #31345, "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2), by John William Draper." Although we verify the correctness...
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The Salvaging of CivilizationThe Salvaging of CivilizationThe present outlook of human affairs is one that admits of broad generalizations and that seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history. A series of immense and tragic events...
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Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of ViewNationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View - Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919It was during the lifetime of Robert Boyle that our forefathers began to come into close contact with...
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History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2)History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised EditionMany reprints of this work having been issued, and translations published in various foreign languages, French, German, Russian, Polish, Servian, &c., I have been induced to revise it carefully, and to...
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Euphorion - Vol. IIEuphorion - Vol. II - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the RenaissanceReal and Idealthese are the handy terms, admiring or disapproving, which criticism claps with random facility on to every imaginable school. This artist or group of artists goes in...
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Euphorion - Vol. IEuphorion - Vol. I - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the RenaissanceFaustus is therefore a parable of the impotent yearnings of the Middle Agesits passionate aspiration, its conscience-stricken desire, its fettered curiosity amid the tramping limits of imperfect knowledge and...
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Progress and HistoryProgress and HistoryThis volume is a sequel to The Unity of Western Civilization published last year and arose in the same way, from a course of lectures given at the Woodbrooke Settlement, Birmingham. The former book attempted to describe some of the permanent unifying...
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Appearances: Being Notes of TravelAppearances: Being Notes of TravelThe articles included in this book have already appeared, those from the East in the Manchester Guardian, those from America in the English Review. In reprinting them, I have chosen a title which may serve also as an apology. What...
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Über die Geometrie der alten AegypterÜber die Geometrie der alten Aegypter. - Vortrag, gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 29. Mai 1884. Mge mir gestattet sein, bei dem heutigen feierlichen Anlasse ein Bild zu entrollen, welches in grossen Strichen die allgemeinen Umrisse des Zustandes...
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History of Ancient CivilizationHistory of Ancient CivilizationIn preparing this volume, the Editor has used both the three-volume edition and the two-volume edition of the "Histoire de la Civilisation." He has usually preferred the order of topics of the two-volume edition, but has supplemented the material therein with...
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Herfsttij der MiddeleeuwenHerfsttij der Middeleeuwen - Studie over levens- en gedachtervormen der veertiende en vijftiende eeuw in Frankrijk en de NederlandenHet is meestal de oorsprong van het nieuwe, wat onze geest in het verleden zoekt. Men wil weten, hoe de nieuwe gedachten en nieuwe levensvormen, die...
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The Age of ErasmusThe Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and LondonThe importance of biography for the study of history can hardly be overrated. In a sense it is true that history should be like the law and 'care not about very...
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Recent Developments in European ThoughtRecent Developments in European ThoughtThis volume, like its two predecessors, arises from a course of lectures delivered at a Summer School at Woodbrooke, near Birmingham, in August, 1919. The first, in 1915, dealt with 'The Unity of Western Civilization' generally, the second, in 1916,...
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The Unity of Western CivilizationThe Unity of Western CivilizationThe following essays are the substance of a course of lectures delivered at a Summer School at the Woodbrooke Settlement, near Birmingham, in August 1915. The general purpose of the course will be apparent from the essays themselves. No forced...
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Medieval PeopleMedieval PeopleFor years after the first edition of Medieval People had come out, Eileen Power collected notes and made plans for several essays to be included in an enlarged edition of the book. Of these essays only one, "The Precursors", had been written out...
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Civilization and Beyond: Learning from HistoryCivilization and Beyond: Learning from HistoryWe may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent...
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