Excerpt from The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands Where Civilization Began
This book has been written in the hope of stimulating interest in history, literature, religion, and art by supplementary reading.
Beginning with the dawn of civilization, the narrative shows the common brotherhood of man and follows the progress of the human family. There is a growing feeling that curricula and textbooks have laid overemphasis on European culture and have too much ignored the older civilizations, which gave it birth. "We are learning from savagery," says Professor James T. Shotwell, "the nature of civilization, and from the stagnant East that of progress." The same impulses and aims that animate us today have stirred in the heart of mankind since the beginning of civilization, irrespective of race, color, or creed. Nor dare we say that accomplishments have greatly differed in degree, however much they may have differed in kind. If Europe and America have forged ahead in invention and mechanical productivity, this does not necessarily stamp them as superior. Both have still much to learn from a study of the Orient, the cradle of literature, art, and philosophy.
It is characteristic of American youth to exaggerate the importance of modern things and to underestimate and misunderstand the vital significance of the precious possessions of the past.
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