McDougall
Americannoun
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Walter A. McDougall has taught a course in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania for four decades.
Mr. McDougall justifies his lucid and expansive method by quoting Rudyard Kipling: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
Mr. McDougall’s opening chapters describe the Greek, Jewish and Roman origins of what we now call Western civilization.
Themis, Mr. McDougall writes, is the “realm of justice, philosophy, religion, and art—in other words, cult and culture.”
Mr. McDougall rejects the notion of a conflict between religion and science.
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