英文原著：历史的教训（The Lessons of History）.pdf.pdf

BY WILL DURANT
The Story of Philosophy
Transition
The Pleasures of Philosophy
Adventures in Genius
BY WILL AND ARIEL DURANT
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION:
1. Our Oriental Heritage
II. The Life of Greece
III. Caesar and Christ
IV. The Age of Faith
V. The Renaissance
VI. The Reformation
VII. The Age of Reason Begins
VIII. The Age of Louis XIV
IX. The Age of Voltaire
X. Rousseau and Revolution
The Lessons of History
THE
LESSONS
OF
HISTORY
by
Will and Ariel Durant
SI~10N AND SCHUSTER
NEW YORK
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COPYRIGHT © 1968 BY WILL AND ARIEL DURANT
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Contents
PREFACE 7
I. Hesitations I I
II. History and the Earth 14
III. Biology and History 18
IV. Race and History 25
V. Character and History 32
VI. Morals and History 37
VII. Religion and History 43
VIII. Economics and History 52
IX. Socialism and History 58
X. Government and History 68
XI. History and War 81
XII. Growth and Decay 87
XIII. Is Progress Real? 95
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE 103
NOTES 105
INDEX
109
Preface
This postlude needs little preface. After finishing The Story of
Civilization to 1789, we reread the ten volumes with a view to
issuing a revised edition that would correct many errors of omis­
sion, fact, or print. In that process we made note of events and
comments that might illuminate present affairs, future probabilities,
the nature of man, and the conduct of states. (The references, in
the text, to various volumes of the Story are offered not as authori­
ties but as instances or el