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Title: Progress and History

Author: Various

Editor: F. S. Marvin

Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27948]

Language: English

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PROGRESS AND
HISTORY

_ESSAYS ARRANGED AND EDITED_

BY

F. S. MARVIN

LATE SENIOR SCHOLAR OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD

AUTHOR OF 'THE LIVING PAST'

EDITOR OF 'THE UNITY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION'

'Tanta patet rerum series et omne futurum
Nititur in lucem.'
LUCAN.

_THIRD IMPRESSION_

HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE CAPE TOWN BOMBAY

1919

PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFACE

This volume is a sequel to _The Unity of Western Civilization_ published
last year and arose in the same way, from a course of lectures given at
the Woodbrooke Settlement, Birmingham.

The former book attempted to describe some of the permanent unifying
factors which hold our Western civilization together in spite of such
catastrophic divisions as the present war. This book attempts to show
these forces in growth. The former aimed rather at a statical, the
present at a dynamical view of the same problem. Both are historical in
spirit.

It is hoped that these courses may serve as an introduction to a series
of cognate studies, of which clearly both the supply and the s