Western races and the world; essays arranged and ed. by F. S. Marvin ..

PREFACE
The issue of this the fifth volume of the Unity Series
coincides with the re-issue, in a cheaper form, of the
initial volume, '
The Unity of Western Civilization ',
which suggested the idea and the title of the whole.
Each succeeding course of lectures, with its subsequent
book, has been suggested by its one or more predecessors.
The growth has been a natural one and welcomed as such
by an increasing public. There was clearly a need for the
persistent presentation of the synthetic aspects of history,
for putting in their due prominence those factors in
human evolution which have tended to build up a more
united mankind.