CIVILIZATION AND BEYOND

Learning From History


By Scott Nearing

This book is not copyrighted. It may be reproduced by anybody and
distributed in any quantity as a whole. It should not be summarized,
abbreviated, garbled or chopped into out-of-context fragments.

Social Science Institute, Harborside, Maine

August 1975




TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
INTRODUCTION: Thoughts about History and Civilization

PART I _The Pageant of Experiments with Civilization_
1. Experiments in Egypt and Eurasia
2. Rome's Outstanding Experiment
3. The Origins of Western Civilization
4. The Life Cycle of Western Civilization
5. Features Common to Civilizations