![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not need to be told how absurd this enterprise is, nor how immodest is its very conception … Nevertheless I have dreamed that despite the many errors inevitable in this undertaking, it may be of some use to those upon whom the passion for philosophy has laid the compulsion to try to see things whole, to pursue perspective, unity and understanding through history in time, as well as to seek them through science in space. I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind – to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the aspirations of religion, the mutations of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art.Quotes I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935) Our Oriental Heritage online at the Internet Archive 1.1.3.4 XVIII : The Paradise of the Gods.1.1.3.2 XVI : From Alexander to Aurangzeb.1.1.1 The Establishment of Civilization. ![]()
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