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PREFACE The ending of the Civil War released American energies for activities of peace. Then followed the era during which industries in the United States were transformed and public utilities were organized and developed. It was a time when mingled with so much that was convenient, serviceable,...

INTRODUCTION "A philosophy of the history of the humán 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" HIS Outline of History,...

INTRODUCTION "A philosophy of the history of the humán 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" HIS Outline of History,...

INTRODUCTION As a professional critic of life and letters, my principal business in the world is that of manufacturing platitudes for tomorrow, which is to say, ideas so novel that they will be instantly rejected as insane and outrageous by all right-thinking men, and so apposite and sound that...

I FIKE OF ZERBST IS BORN Early in the eighteenth century, the north German town of Stettin had all the grim and rigid characteristics of a frontier post. It was a border town and had long been a center of warfare. The broad rich lands of Pomerania, bursting with fertility, had been repeatedly...