Excerpt from Living in the Twentieth Century: A Consideration of How We Got This Way It goes without saying that the writer owes much as te gards both the factual content and the organization Of this book to many excellent volumes written on various aspects of the contents, and even more to his notable teachers who have covered these fields, such as James Harvey Robinson, J. T. Shotwell, F. H. Giddings, C. A. Beard, E. F. Gay, L. J. Henderson, George Sarton and others. Particularly cogent and helpful here were the perspective and dominating ideas developed in Professor Shotwell's course on the development of European civilization, and Professor Gay's course on the economic history of Europe in the nineteenth century. Many suggestions have come from his friend, Professor Melvin M. Knight, who is possessed of perhaps the most fertile and original mind among American students of history and social science. For an efficient reading of the proof-sheets of this volume the author is indebted to Miss Mildred Lintz and Mr. Robert W. Hankins. Professor Joseph Mayer of Tufts College has been kind enough to aid me by a critical reading of the proof-sheets of Chapter II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.