The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

INTRODUCTION

“_A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one--a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law._”--FRIEDRICH RATZEL.

This _Outline of History_ is an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuo...