Story of the Civilization

This is the story of the earth from the first thing we know of it to the time in which we live. It is the story of man from the first thing we know of them to the last thought that the vision of modern science can suggest.
There have been histories of the world before; there are available in large numbers histories of all countries, but there is not, and it may be doubted if there has ever been attempted before, a scientific World-History. This work is, as far as it can possibly be, a Universal History of the Universe.
This is a far reaching claim to make, but a mere glance though the names of those whose services have been enlisted for the work will make its basis clear. The contributors include some of the foremost and eminent names form the sciences whose function here is to hold the Lamp of Science up to History.
To the creators of this work the world is not merely an aggregation of countries under more or less settled governments, nor is a country merely the seat of a political system. They conceive the earth as a part of the universe, as one world among many, and this is the story of a huge ball flying in space, on which men and women live, on which might nations rise and rule and pass away, on which great empires crumble into dust. It is the entrancing book of man and the universe the life story of all nations.
The story in this set begins from the beginning and unfolds into eight grand divisions such as:
• MAN AND THE UNIVERSE
• THE FAR EAST
• THE MIDDLE EAST
• AFRICA
• THE NEAR EAST
• EUROPE
• AMERICA
• THE TRIUMPH OF THE MIND OF MAN
The set is made more interesting with the inclusion of more than 8000 illustrations and an exclusive detailed index.
It is a commonplace to say of a great work that it is unique, and there would at first sight seem to be peculiar presumption in making such a claim for a STORY OF THE CIVILISATION. It may be claimed, however, without any fear of contradiction, that this work has no rival in the English language.