- ISBN: 9780766142848 | 0766142841
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/1/2003
1939. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766138089. Volume 2 of a 2 volume set. The scope of this book is a philosophy of history, however, it possesses a deeper significance as a commentary on the great epochal moment of which the portents were visible when the leading ideas were being formed. Its intent is to describe, in the light of the decline of the Classical Age, a one world-historical phase of several centuries.