| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | —The coming of the Sea Lady | 1 |
| II. | —Some first impressions | 30 |
| III. | —The episode of the various journalists | 71 |
| IV. | —The quality of Parker | 90 |
| V. | —The absence and return of Mr. Harry Chatteris | 101 |
| VI. | —Symptomatic | 133 |
| VII. | —The crisis | 204 |
| VIII. | —Moonshine triumphant | 285 |
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FACING PAGE |
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| “Am I doing it right?” asked the Sea Lady | ||
| “Stuff that the public won’t believe aren’t facts” | 81 | |
| She positively and quietly settled down with the Buntings | 90 | |
| A little group about the Sea Lady’s bath chair | 134 | |
| “Why not?” | 160 | |
| The waiter retires amazed | 170 | |
| They seemed never to do anything but blow and sigh and rustle papers | 180 | |
| Adjusting the folds of his blanket to a greater dignity | 216 |
| Book I. | ||
| The Making of Kipps | ||
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Little Shop at New Romney | 3 |
| II. | The Emporium | 36 |
| III. | The Wood-Carving Class | 64 |
| IV. | Chitterlow | 88 |
| V. | "Swapped" | 117 |
| VI. | The Unexpected | 128 |
| Book II. | ||
| Mr. Coote, the Chaperon | ||
| I. | The New Conditions | 169 |
| II. | The Walshinghams | 201 |
| III. | Engaged | 218 |
| IV. | The Bicycle Manufacturer | 245 |
| V. | The Pupil Lover | 259 |
| VI. | Discords | 282 |
| VII. | London | 309 |
| VIII. | Kipps Enters Society | 354 |
| IX. | The Labyrinthodon | 380 |
| Book III. | ||
| Kippses | ||
| I. | The Housing Problem | 395 |
| II. | The Callers | 424 |
| III. | Terminations | 443 |
| PAGE | |
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| THE PLATTNER STORY | 2 |
| THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR | 29 |
| THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM | 47 |
| IN THE ABYSS | 71 |
| THE APPLE | 94 |
| UNDER THE KNIFE | 106 |
| THE SEA-RAIDERS | 126 |
| POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN | 142 |
| THE RED ROOM | 165 |
| THE CONE | 179 |
| THE PURPLE PILEUS | 196 |
| THE JILTING OF JANE | 213 |
| IN THE MODERN VEIN | 224 |
| A CATASTROPHE | 239 |
| THE LOST INHERITANCE | 252 |
| THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC | 262 |
| A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 274 |
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Introduction VOLUME I. Scheme of Contents, Volume I. List of Maps and Illustrations VOLUME II. Scheme of Contents, Volume II. List of Illustrations Time Charts Chronological Table Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z (etext transcriber's note) |
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BOOK
I THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD |
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| Chapter I. The Earth in Space and Time | 3 | |
| Chapter II. The Record of the Rocks | ||
| § 1. | The first living things | 7 |
| § 2. | How old is the world? | 13 |
| Chapter III. Natural Selection and the Changes of Species | 16 | |
| Chapter IV. The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life | ||
| § 1. | Life and water | 23 |
| § 2. | The earliest animals | 25 |
| Chapter V. Changes in the Worldâ?Ts Climate | ||
| § 1. | Why life must change continually | 29 |
| § 2. | The sun a steadfast star | 34 |
| § 3. | Changes from within the earth | 35 |
| § 4. | Life may control change | 36 |
| Chapter VI. The Age of Reptiles | ||
| § 1. | The age of lowland life | 38 |
| § 2. | Flying dragons | 43 |
| § 3. | The first birds | 43 |
| § 4. | An age of hardship and death | 44 |
| § 5. | The first appearance of fur and feathers | 47 |
| Chapter VII. The Age of Mammals | ||
| § 1. | A new age of life | 51 |
| § 2. | Tradition comes into the world | 52 |
| § 3. | An age of brain growth | 56 |
| § 4. | The world grows hard again | 57 |
| § 5. | Chronology of the Ice Age | 59 |
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II THE MAKING OF MEN |
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| Chapter VIII. The Ancestry of Man | ||
| § 1. | Man descended from a walking ape | 62 |
| § 2. | First traces of man-like creatures | 68 |
| § 3. | The Heidelberg sub-man | 69 |
| § 4. | The Piltdown sub-man | 70 |
| § 5. | The riddle of the Piltdown remains | 72 |
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Chapter IX. The
Neanderthal Men, an Extinct Race. (The Early Palæolithic Age) |
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| § 1. | The world 50,000 years ago | 75 |
| § 2. | The daily life of the first men | 79 |
| § 3. | The last Palæolithic men | 84 |
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Chapter X. The Later
Postglacial Palæolithic Men, the First True Men. (Later Palæolithic Age) |
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| § 1. | The coming of men like ourselves | 86 |
| § 2. | Subdivision of the Later Palæolithic | 95 |
| § 3. | The earliest true men were clever savages | 98 |
| § 4. | Hunters give place to herdsmen | 101 |
| § 5. | No sub-men in America | 102 |
| Chapter XI. Neolithic Man in Europe | ||
| § 1. | The age of cultivation begins | 104 |
| § 2. | Where did the Neolithic culture arise? | 108 |
| § 3. | Everyday Neolithic life | 109 |
| § 4. | How did sowing begin? | 116 |
| § 5. | Primitive trade | 118 |
| § 6. | The flooding of the Mediterranean Valley | 118 |
| Chapter XII. Early Thought | ||
| § 1. | Primitive philosophy | 122 |
| § 2. | The Old Man in religion | 125 |
| § 3. | Fear and hope in religion | 126 |
| § 4. | Stars and seasons | 127 |
| § 5. | Story-telling and myth-making | 129 |
| § 6. | Complex origins of religion | 130 |
| Chapter XIII. The Races of Mankind | ||
| § 1. | Is mankind still differentiating? | 136 |
| § 2. | The main races of mankind | 140 |
| § 3. | Was there an Alpine race? | 142 |
| § 4. | The Heliolithic culture of the Brunet peoples | 146 |
| § 5. | How existing races may be related to each other | 148 |
| Chapter XIV. The Languages of Mankind | ||
| § 1. | No one primitive language | 150 |
| § 2. | The Aryan languages | 151 |
| § 3. | The Semitic languages | 153 |
| § 4. | The Hamitic languages | 154 |
| § 5. | The Ural-Altaic languages | 156 |
| § 6. | The Chinese languages | 157 |
| § 7. | Other language groups | 157 |
| § 8. | Submerged and lost languages | 161 |
| § 9. | How languages may be related | 163 |
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BOOK
III THE DAWN OF HISTORY |
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| Chapter XV. The Aryan-speaking Peoples in Prehistoric Times | ||
| § 1. | The spreading of the Aryan-speakers | 167 |
| § 2. | Primitive Aryan life | 169 |
| § 3. | Early Aryan daily life | 176 |
| Chapter XVI. The First Civilizations | ||
| § 1. | Early cities and early nomads | 183 |
| § 2A. | The riddle of the Sumerians | 188 |
| § 2B. | The empire of Sargon the First | 191 |
| § 2C. | The empire of Hammurabi | 191 |
| § 2D. | The Assyrians and their empire | 192 |
| § 2E. | The Chaldean empire | 194 |
| § 3. | The early history of Egypt | 195 |
| § 4. | The early civilization of India | 201 |
| § 5. | The early history of China | 201 |
| § 6. | While the civilizations were growing | 206 |
| Chapter XVII. Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples | ||
| § 1. | The earliest ships and sailors | 209 |
| § 2. | The Ã?gean cities before history | 213 |
| § 3. | The first voyages of exploration | 217 |
| § 4. | Early traders | 218 |
| § 5. | Early travellers | 220 |
| Chapter XVIII. Writing | ||
| § 1. | Picture writing | 223 |
| § 2. | Syllable writing | 227 |
| § 3. | Alphabet writing | 228 |
| § 4. | The place of writing in human life | 229 |
| Chapter XIX. Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings | ||
| § 1. | Nomadic and settled religion | 232 |
| § 2. | The priest comes into history | 234 |
| § 3. | Priests and the stars | 238 |
| § 4. | Priests and the dawn of learning | 240 |
| § 5. | King against priests | 241 |
| § 6. | How Bel-Marduk struggled against the kings | 245 |
| § 7. | The god-kings of Egypt | 248 |
| § 8. | Shi Hwang-ti destroys the books | 252 |
| Chapter XX. Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes, and Free Individuals | ||
| § 1. | The common man in ancient times | 254 |
| § 2. | The earliest slaves | 256 |
| § 3. | The first â?oindependentâ? persons | 259 |
| § 4. | Social classes three thousand years ago | 262 |
| § 5. | Classes hardening into castes | 266 |
| § 6. | Caste in India | 268 |
| § 7. | The system of the Mandarins | 270 |
| § 8. | A summary of five thousand years | 272 |
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BOOK
IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA |
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| Chapter XXI. The Hebrew Scriptures and the Prophets | ||
| § 1. | The place of the Israelites in history | 277 |
| § 2. | Saul, David, and Solomon | 286 |
| § 3. | The Jews a people of mixed origin | 292 |
| § 4. | The importance of the Hebrew prophets | 294 |
| Chapter XXII. The Greeks and the Persians | ||
| § 1. | The Hellenic peoples | 298 |
| § 2. | Distinctive features of the Hellenic civilization | 304 |
| § 3. | Monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy in Greece | 307 |
| § 4. | The kingdom of Lydia | 315 |
| § 5. | The rise of the Persians in the East | 316 |
| § 6. | The story of CrÅ"sus | 320 |
| § 7. | Darius invades Russia | 326 |
| § 8. | The battle of Marathon | 332 |
| § 9. | Thermopylæ and Salamis | 334 |
| § 10. | Platæa and Mycale | 340 |
| Chapter XXIII. Greek Thought and Literature | ||
| § 1. | The Athens of Pericles | 343 |
| § 2. | Socrates | 350 |
| § 3. | What was the quality of the common Athenians? | 352 |
| § 4. | Greek tragedy and comedy | 354 |
| § 5. | Plato and the Academy | 355 |
| § 6. | Aristotle and the Lyceum | 357 |
| § 7. | Philosophy becomes unworldly | 359 |
| § 8. | The quality and limitations of Greek thought | 360 |
| Chapter XXIV. The Career of Alexander the Great | ||
| § 1. | Philip of Macedonia | 367 |
| § 2. | The murder of King Philip | 373 |
| § 3. | Alexanderâ?Ts first conquests | 377 |
| § 4. | The wanderings of Alexander | 385 |
| § 5. | Was Alexander indeed great? | 389 |
| § 6. | The successors of Alexander | 395 |
| § 7. | Pergamum a refuge of culture | 396 |
| § 8. | Alexander as a portent of world unity | 397 |
| Chapter XXV. Science and Religion at Alexandria | ||
| § 1. | The science of Alexandria | 401 |
| § 2. | Philosophy of Alexandria | 410 |
| § 3. | Alexandria as a factory of religions | 410 |
| Chapter XXVI. The Rise and Spread of Buddhism | ||
| § 1. | The story of Gautama | 415 |
| § 2. | Teaching and legend in conflict | 421 |
| § 3. | The gospel of Gautama Buddha | 422 |
| § 4. | Buddhism and Asoka | 426 |
| § 5. | Two great Chinese teachers | 433 |
| § 6. | The corruptions of Buddhism | 438 |
| § 7. | The present range of Buddhism | 440 |
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BOOK
V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE |
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| Chapter XXVII. The Two Western Republics | ||
| § 1. | The beginnings of the Latins | 445 |
| § 2. | A new sort of state | 454 |
| § 3. | The Carthaginian republic of rich men | 466 |
| § 4. | The First Punic War | 467 |
| § 5. | Cato the Elder and the spirit of Cato | 471 |
| § 6. | The Second Punic War | 475 |
| § 7. | The Third Punic War | 480 |
| § 8. | How the Punic War undermined Roman liberty | 485 |
| § 9. | Comparison of the Roman republic with a modern state | 486 |
| Chapter XXVIII. From Tiberius Gracchus To the God Emperor in Rome | ||
| § 1. | The science of thwarting the common man | 493 |
| § 2. | Finance in the Roman state | 496 |
| § 3. | The last years of republican politics | 499 |
| § 4. | The era of the adventurer generals | 505 |
| § 5. | Caius Julius Cæsar and his death | 509 |
| § 6. | The end of the republic | 513 |
| § 7. | Why the Roman republic failed | 516 |
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Chapter XXIX. The Cæsars
between the Sea and the Great Plains of the Old World |
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| § 1. | A short catalogue of emperors | 52 |
| § 2. | Roman civilization at its zenith | 529 |
| § 3. | Limitations of the Roman mind | 539 |
| § 4. | The stir of the great plains | 541 |
| § 5. | The Western (true Roman) Empire crumples up | 552 |
| § 6. | The Eastern (revived Hellenic) Empire | 560 |
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BOOK
VI CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM |
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| Chapter XXX. The Beginnings, the Rise, and the Divisions of Christianity | ||
| § 1. | Judea at the Christian era | 569 |
| § 2. | The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth | 573 |
| § 3. | The universal religions | 582 |
| § 4. | The crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth | 584 |
| § 5. | Doctrines added to the teachings of Jesus | 586 |
| § 6. | The struggles and persecutions of Christianity | 594 |
| § 7. | Constantine the Great | 598 |
| § 8. | The establishment of official Christianity | 601 |
| § 9. | The map of Europe, A.D. 500 | 605 |
| § 10. | The salvation of learning by Christianity | 609 |
| Chapter XXXI. Seven Centuries in Asia (CIRCA 50 B.C. TO A.D. 650) | ||
| § 1. | Justinian the Great | 614 |
| § 2. | The Sassanid Empire in Persia | 616 |
| § 3. | The decay of Syria under the Sassanids | 619 |
| § 4. | The first message from Islam | 623 |
| § 5. | Zoroaster and Mani | 624 |
| § 6. | Hunnish peoples in Central Asia and India | 627 |
| § 7. | The great age of China | 630 |
| § 8. | Intellectual fetters of China | 635 |
| § 9. | The travels of Yuan Chwang | 642 |