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Excerpt from Social History of the Races of Mankind Third Division: Chiapo-and Guardno-Maranonians
That the reader may understand the Spirit, drift and object of this Preface the author deems it proper to premise that his work is far more comprehensive than it may appear from the volumes hitherto published. This is the last volume that treats of the so-called savage races of mankind, who have no literature, no science, no fine arts, no political history; nor do they claim to act according to a prescribed standard of morality, and much less do they profess a system of dog matic religion which is considered as being of divine origin. The volumes that will now be periodically published are, in a social point of view, of far higher importance. The civilisation of the races that will come within the range of historical appreciation is, with some few exceptions, of a much more progressive type, and will gradually advance, until it reaches the best developed barbarian model, and will receive its highest expression, and its most developed form, not only in Greece and Rome, but among the modern nations of Europe, com prising in their aggregate all countries generally known under the de signation of Christendom. It will then become apparent that this is not an ethnological or anthropological work in the technical sense of these terms, though it contains all the fundamental elements upon which social philosophy is founded. It is, in fact, a real Universal History of Human Society, or a Universal History of Civilisation, arranged on a linguistic or philological basis and it is written, not in a scientific, but in a clear, ?uent, historic style, in which all technical or scientific terms have been carefully avoided; and to find it defec tive as a work of science, is about as rational as to find it defective as a dramatic or poetical work. The subjects will now grow in variety as well as in interest; and as the political history of the European nations will form a prominent part of the succeeding volumes, the author considers all historical facts, the public acts of the governing powers, as well as the current, political events of the day, as coming within the purview of social history and social philosophy.
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That the reader may understand the Spirit, drift and object of this Preface the author deems it proper to premise that his work is far more comprehensive than it may appear from the volumes hitherto published. This is the last volume that treats of the so-called savage races of mankind, who have no literature, no science, no fine arts, no political history; nor do they claim to act according to a prescribed standard of morality, and much less do they profess a system of dog matic religion which is considered as being of divine origin. The volumes that will now be periodically published are, in a social point of view, of far higher importance. The civilisation of the races that will come within the range of historical appreciation is, with some few exceptions, of a much more progressive type, and will gradually advance, until it reaches the best developed barbarian model, and will receive its highest expression, and its most developed form, not only in Greece and Rome, but among the modern nations of Europe, com prising in their aggregate all countries generally known under the de signation of Christendom. It will then become apparent that this is not an ethnological or anthropological work in the technical sense of these terms, though it contains all the fundamental elements upon which social philosophy is founded. It is, in fact, a real Universal History of Human Society, or a Universal History of Civilisation, arranged on a linguistic or philological basis and it is written, not in a scientific, but in a clear, ?uent, historic style, in which all technical or scientific terms have been carefully avoided; and to find it defec tive as a work of science, is about as rational as to find it defective as a dramatic or poetical work. The subjects will now grow in variety as well as in interest; and as the political history of the European nations will form a prominent part of the succeeding volumes, the author considers all historical facts, the public acts of the governing powers, as well as the current, political events of the day, as coming within the purview of social history and social philosophy.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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