the story of civilization will durant volume 1

I do not need to be told how absurd this enterprise is, nor how immodest is its very conception for many years of effort have brought it to but a ﬁfth of its completion, and have made it clear that no one mind, and no single lifetime, can adequately compass this task. I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind-to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the aspirations of religion, the mutations of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art. HAVE tried in this book to accomplish the ﬁrst part of a pleasant assignment which I rashly laid upon myself some twenty years ago: to write a history of civilization. ISBN 0-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 35-10016 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form Published by Simon and Schuster A Division of Gulf & Western Corporation Simon & Schuster Building Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 SIMON AND SCHUSTER and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster The Age of Napoleon The Lessons of History Interpretation of Life A Dual AutobiographyĬopyright 1935 by Will Durant Copyright renewed © 1963 by Will Durant ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Story of Philosophy Transition The Pleasure of Philosophy Adventures in Genius BY WILL AND ARIEL DURANT

Pronouncing and Biographical Index Citation preview The Six Systems of Brahmanical PhilosophyĬhapter 29: The Political and Moral FoundationsĬhapter 30: The Mind and Art of Old Japanīibliography of Books Referred to in the Text

The Literature and Philosophy of the BibleĢ. The Death and Resurrection of Jerusalemħ. Chapter 1: The Conditions of CivilizationĬhapter 2: The Economic Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 3: The Political Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 4: The Moral Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 5: The Mental Elements of CivilizationĬhronological Chart: Types and Cultures of Prehistoric ManĬhapter 6: The Prehistoric Beginnings of CivilizationĬhronological Table of Near Eastern Historyĥ.

The story of civilization will durant volume 1