THE STORY OF MANKIND : THE SCENE OF OUR HISTORY IS LAID UPON A LITTLE PLANET, LOST IN THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE

THE STORY OF MANKIND BY HENDRIK VAN LOON, PH.D. Professor of the Social Sciences in Antioch College. CONTENTS 1. THE SETTING OF THE STAGE 2. OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS 3. PREHISTORIC MAX BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIMSELF 4. THE EGYPTIANS INVENT THE ART OF WRITING AND THE RECORD OF HISTORY BEGINS 9. THE STORY OF MOSES, THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE 10. THE PHOENICIANS, WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHABET 21. A SHORT SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 1 TO 20 23. HOW ROME HAPPENED 60. BUT THE WORLD HAD UNDERGONE ANOTHER CHANGE WHICH WAS OF GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN EITHER THE POLITICAL OR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS. AFTER GENERATIONS OF OPPRESSION AND PERSECUTION, THE SCIENTIST HAD AT LAST GAINED LIBERTY OF ACTION AND HE WAS NOW TRYING TO DISCOVER THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS WHICH GOVERN THE UNIVERSE. AND A LOT MORE