On four counts this volume is to be included among the out- standing documents of intellectual history in the United States and, in a way, the Western World. It deserves a prime place among the writings of the Adams family on the nature and course of so- cial politics, from the The Defence of the Constitutions of the United States by John Adams to the three penetrating and ex- plosive essays on…
THE SOURCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, the ancient Near East, lies in a relatively small area of land where three continents-Asia, Africa, and Europe-come together Although our heritage is a long one, it is difficult to state with precision just when it began. Two quite different kinds of problems stand in the way of dating accurately the beginnings of our civilization. An obvious difficulty lies …
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series Vol. XXV, No. 16, pp. 377-420, pls. 37-46 November 15, 1946
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