Table of Contents

Introduction, Adler Hans, Ernest A. Menze; Part 1 Principles of History—Principles of Historiography; Chapter 1 Early Leaves of Critical Groves; Chapter 2 From Journal of my Travels; Chapter 3 From This, too, a Philosophy of History; Chapter 4 Whether We Need to Know the End of History in Order to Write History; Chapter 5 The Nemesis of History; Chapter 6 The “Querelle des anciens et des modernes”; Chapter 7 History; Chapter 8 Expectations for the Coming Century; Part 2 Mythology and Historiography; Chapter 9 On Monuments of the Distant Past; Chapter 10 On the Earliest Documents of Humankind; Part 3 Philosophy of History; Chapter 11 On the Character of Humankind; Chapter 12 On the Term and the Concept “Humanity”; Chapter 13 Preface to the Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind; Chapter 14 The Human Being is Predisposed to the Power of Reason; Chapter 15 Specifically Human Predispositions Besides Reason; Chapter 16 The Nature Of Humankind Manifests Itself In A System Of Spiritual Powers; Chapter 17 The Present State of Humankind Is Probably the Connecting Link between Two Worlds; Chapter 18 The Nature of Peoples in the Vicinity of the North Pole; Chapter 19 The Nature of the Peoples Along the Asian Spine of the Earth; Chapter 20 The Nature of Peoples Favored by the Temperate Zone; Chapter 21 The Nature of the African Peoples; Chapter 22 The Nature of the Peoples on the Islands of the Tropical Zone; Chapter 23 The Nature of the Americans; Chapter 24 The Search for the Origin of Humankind and the Beginning of History on the Basis of Written Sources; Part 4 Reflections on World History; Chapter 25 China; Chapter 26 India; Chapter 27 General Reflections on the History of the Asian States; Chapter 28 Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea; Chapter 29 The Hebrews; Chapter 30 Egypt; Chapter 31 Further Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind; Chapter 32 The Language, Mythology, and Poetry of Greece; Chapter 33 Greek Arts; Chapter 34 General Reflections on the History of Greece; Chapter 35 Germanic Peoples; Chapter 36 Slavic Peoples; Chapter 37 Toward a Culture of Reason in Europe; Chapter 38 Concluding Commentary;