I have long felt that our usual method of writing history in separate longitudinal sections economic history, political history, religious history, the history of philosophy, the history of literature, the history of science, the history of music, the history of art does injustice to the unity of human life; that history should be written collaterally as well as lineally, synthetically as well as analytically; and that the ideal historiography would seek to portray in each period the total complex of a nations culture, institutions, adventures and ways. But the accumulation of knowledge has divided history, like science, into a thousand isolated specialties; and prudent scholars have refrained from attempting any view of the whole whether of the material universe, or of the living past of our race. WILL DURANTS The Story of Civilizations
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