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Tr torical study which would be intelligible themselves within their own limits of space and time, without reference to extraneous historical events. The search for these self-contained units led us to find them in Societies of the species we called Civilizations, and so far we have been working on the assumption that a comparative study of the geneses, growths, breakdowns, breakdowns, and disi…
THE celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 called to mind the history of the preceding sixty years, and this retrospect opened up a view of the whole of history which looked clear and simple Between 1837 and 1897 the West had completed the establishment of its ascendancy over all the rest of the World. This was the consummation of a process that had been started, four hundred y…
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