The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History

PREFACE

In offering to the public a second edition of _The Law of Civilization and Decay_ I take the opportunity to say emphatically that such value as the essay may have lies in its freedom from any preconceived bias. All theories contained in the book, whether religious or economic, are the effect, and not the cause, of the way in which the facts unfolded themselves. I have been p...