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Title: History of Human Society

Author: Frank W. Blackmar

Release Date: December 6, 2009 [EBook #30610]

Language: English

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HISTORY OF

HUMAN SOCIETY

BY

FRANK W. BLACKMAR

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK ---- CHICAGO ---- BOSTON

ATLANTA ---- SAN FRANCISCO

Copyright, 1926, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

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PREFACE

This book tells what we know of man, how he first lived, how he worked
with other men, what kinds of houses he built, what tools he made, and
how he formed a government under which to live. So we learn of the
activities of men in the past and what they have passed on to us. In
this way we may become acquainted with the different stages in the
process which we call civilization.

The present trend of specialization in study and research has brought
about widely differentiated courses of study in schools and a large
number of books devoted to special subjects. Each course of study and
each book must necessarily represent but a fragment of the subject.
This method of intensified study is to be commended; indeed, it is
essential to the development of scientific truth. Those persons who
can read only a limited number of books and those students who can take
only a limited number of courses of study need books which present a
connected survey of the movement of social progress as a whole, and
which blaze a trail through the accumulation of learning, and give an
adequate perspective of human achievement.

It is hoped, then, that this book will form the basis of a course of
reading or study that will give the picture in small compass of this
most fascinating subject. If it serves its purpose well, it will be
the introduction to more special study in particular f