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Civilizations and Their Diseases -- And Rebuilding a Wrecked World Civilization Part I
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR DISEASES AND REBUILDING A WRECKED WORLD CIVILIZATION By JOSEPH WIDNEY PART I CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR DISEASES PACIFIC PUBLISHING COMPANY TIMES-MIRROR PRESS LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA Copyright J. P. WlDNEY Los Angeles California 1937 To THE UNRESTING DEAD OF A MIGHTY PAST Perse polls Night and an upland plain, Lone mountains looking down, A broken colonnade, An esplanade once trod By long-forgotten feet, Ages and ages ago. A giant stairway, worn By throngs that came and went . . . But, oh, so long ago A lion, ears attent, Listening and half-affright At sounds by human ears Unheard for centuries; A sound of revelry Harp and tabor and lute, And song and the rhythmic sway Of the merry dancing feet . . . And the wild beast in his fright Slinks from the sounds away, To wait for the dawning day When dead men sleep. THE ETERNAL WHY CONTENTS PART I CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR DISEASES PAGB FRONTISPIECE DR. J. P. WIDNEY, Ninety-Six Years DEDICATION To THE UNRESTING DEAD OF A MIGHTY PAST: Pertepolis CONTENTS vii PREFACE ADDRESS TO THE Los ANGELES COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ON OCCASION OF UNVEILING OF BUST OF DR. WIDNEY ( Illustration) xi A PERSONAL WORD AND A RETROSPECT xvi SEVENTY-SIX YEARS OF RESEARCH. THE ETERNAL WHY? GROWTH AND DEATH OF CIVILIZATIONS THE DESERT GIVES THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE PAST WHY DID PRIMITIVE RACES MIGRATE ? CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR MANY DOCTORS THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY HISTORY IN DIAGNOSIS THE MAN PRIMEVAL ( A Poem) I. II. THE FAMILY HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION. TWO THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN PRIMITIVE MAN AND THE LAW OF GROWTH MAN DISCOVERS FIRE THE CLIFF-DWELLERS AND FIRE TRIBAL AND NATIONAL MIGRATIONSDIVERGENCE OF TRAILS CLIMATIC DIFFERENCES DIVERSITIES IN RACE TYPE GROWTH AND UPBUILDING OF CIVILIZATIONS THE CAVE THE GROUP OF CAVES REASONS FOR GROUPING BEGINNINGS OF CIVIC ALLIANCE . XX111, . 1 Vll II. GROWTH AND UPBUILDING OF CIVILIZATIONS Continued COMMUNITY TRIBE NATION LEADERSHIP: THE STRONG MAN THE SEER THE STRONGHOLD AND ITS LANDS OTHER LAND-HOLDINGS HOW LANDS PASSED FROM THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT AND UPBUILDING OF CIVILIZATIONS WHERE EARLIEST TYPES APPEAR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS OF FOOD SUPPLY AND LIVING III. WRECKED CIVILIZATIONS 15 WHAT AND WHERE THESE WERE GREAT METROPOLITAN CENTERS OF THE PAST: BABYLON, UR, ERECH, NINEVEH, MEMPHIS, THEBES A DISEASE COMMON TO ALL DEAD CIVILIZATIONS ALIENATION OF THE LANDS FROM THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE OVERCROWDING OF POPULATION INTO CITIES THE BARTER OF EGYPT'S LANDS: DOWNFALL OF EGYPT THE CIVILIZATIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA IV. WHAT FATAL DISEASE CAME TO ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS? 21 THE ABANDONMENT OF THE LAND LATER CIVILIZATIONS: THE OLD PHOENICIAN ANCIENT ROME AND HER LAND PROBLEMS CIVILIZATIONS WHICH DIED APPARENTLY FROM EXHAUS TION OF RACE VITALITY: DRAVIDIANS; THE BROWN MEN OF MESOPOTAMIA; THE HITTITES; ANCIENT GREEKS OF THE ISLES J TOLTECS; MAYANS CIVILIZATIONS THAT DIED BY VIOLENCE: MAYAN; PHOENICIAN; INCA V. CIVILIZATIONS WHICH SEEM TO BE NOW DYING . 28 THE GREEK LIVING GREECE AND ITALY? ROME'S GREAT GIFTS TO THE WORLD: LAW; SCIENCE OF WAR THE WESTERN EMPIRE AND ITS CIVILIZATION WHY ROME DIED: LOSS OF THE ARMS HABIT; DEPEN DENCE UPON MERCENARIES; LANDLESS PEOPLE IN viii PAGE V. CIVILIZATIONS WHICH SEEM TO BE NOW DYING Continued OVERCROWDED CITIES, VULNERABLE TO BARBARIAN ATTACK; DOLE; FAILURE OF LAW; OUTGROWN RELIG IOUS FAITH; DECADENCEOF MANHOOD; MIXING OF ALIEN BLOODS ITALY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSSOLINI'S TASK VI. THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE EAST 52 THE SWEEP OF ITS POWER CHRISTIANITY AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE INFLUENCE OF THE DESERT UPON EARLY CHRISTIANITY THE SARACENIC ERA AND GREEK CHRISTIANITY THE OTTOMAN TURK VOX PALMAE ( A Poem) .... 64 THE EASTERN EMPIRE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD VII. THE ITALIAN SISTERS: ITALY AND SPAIN.... 67 ITALY: THE ATTEMPTED REVIVAL OF A UNITED PEOPLE THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT MUSSOLINI THE CIVILIZATION OF THE SPANISH PEOPLES THE BLOODS THAT ARE IN SPAIN THE DISCOVE |
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