Progress and History

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Progress and History, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Progress and History Author: Various Editor: F. S. Marvin Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27948] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROGRESS AND HISTORY *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. 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 [3] 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.