When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely ...

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT — Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard—Macmillan ($5). . This book is a summary of American thought and American civilization from John Adams to Franklin Roosevelt. As the fourth ...

A long list of lost or submerged lands and extinct civilizations couldn't see ahead, didn't care about their descendants, or cared only about the present. Foresight or the will to do anything about it ...

HISTORY has differentiated into monographs and panoramas. The former supply the studio properties for the latter, and are susceptible of an indefinite number of combinations. The monograph writer is ...

“Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”—Will Durant. “Civilization” or “being civilized” are not terms that are wholly easy to define. Vagaries and degrees can exist; ...

LOOKING back over forty centuries of history, we observe that many nations have made characteristic contributions to the progress of civilization, the beneficent effects of which have been permanent, ...