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PREFATORY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
This work has now been carefully revised and slightly
enlarged. I am indebted to suggestions from various
reviewers of the first edition for several of the improvements
introduced. Occasionally, however, they are in error and at
variance among themselves on some of the points noted. A
few of my critics have accused me of being too discursive,
especially in my notes, an impression which is the natural
result of my not having expressed it definitely anywhere that
my object was to present not merely the sociology and events
of a particular period, but also to illustrate, in an abridged
sense, the history of all time.
W. G. H.
London,
August, 1912.
