The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the
intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations
have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and
woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated
chiefly politics. Then came the economists to arouse the interest
of scholars and of the public in the production and distribution of
wealth. Economic history rightly absorbs much attention, for it
illumines, with its new searchlight, many a dark corner of the
past, and explains many features of present-day society. But to
many men today the most interesting thing about society is its
culture; just as the most interesting thing about an individual is
his thought. Indeed, it has begun to be suspected that even
politics and economics, each sometimes worshipped as a First Cause,
are but secondary effects of somthing still deeper, namely, of the
progress of man's intellectual life. The present volume aims to
exhibit, as a unified whole, thestate and progress of modern
culture.
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