This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up-to-date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery.

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Introduction; I: Subject and Divisions; II: Sources; One: Origins; I: Beginnings of Moral Reflection; II: Beginnings of a Systematic Representation of the Universe. Theogonies and Cosmogonies. Influence of the East; Two: Science and Philosophy; I: The School of Miletos; II: Science as the Instrument of Moral Purification. Pythagoreanism and the Italian School; III: The Philosophy of Becoming. Heracleitos of Ephesos; IV: The Philosophy of Being. The Eleatics; V: Alternation of the One and the Many. Empedocles of Acragas; VI: Atomistic Mechanism. The School of Abdera. Leucippos and Democritos; VII: The Mechanism of Quality and Mind. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae; Three: Human Culture; I: Eclectics and Sophists; II: Socrates; III: The Spread of the Socratic Spirit; IV: First Part Plato; Three: Second Part The Old Academy; V: First Part Aristotle; Three: Second Part: The Immediate Disciples of Aristotle; Four: Man in the Universe. the Ideal of The Wise Man; I: Scepticism; II: Epicureanism; III: Early Stoicism; IV: The New Academy; Five: The Decline of Greek Thought; I: Scientific Specialization. Eclecticism. Revivals; II: Plotinus and the End of Neo-Platonism; Conclusion