much expenditure, both of money and time. The translations from foreign languages used are nearly always from authorities already accepted as standard, it being a part of the working plan of the collection to prefer accepted standard translations, where available, to special translations. The texts of the Bohn Library (Macmillan and Company, New York and London) were most heavily drawn upon. For original texts of the French Revolutionary period, the heaviest obligation the work is under, to any single collection, is to that of Professor H. Morse Stephens, which represent a high degree of excellence. Thanks are returned to publishers and photographers for permission to use copyrighted works, and in every instance care has been taken to preserve copyright for its owners by giving credit in connection with the text or picture used. PREFACE TO THE INDEXES ACH of the Indexes which follow is complete in itself, but all are intended to supplement each other. The General Index, which was intended to be an exhaustive analysis of the subjects dealt with in the text, is reinforced by Chronological Indexes which, when used in connection with it, will give the chronological sequence of events in a way which it is hoped will be permanently valuable, not only to the general reader, but to the special student of history, law, religion, politics, literature, and other departments of intellectual activity. The Indexes in their order are as follows: GENERAL INDEX OF ORATORS INDEX OF SUBJECTS OF ORATIONS CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF ORATORS AND SUBJECTS CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF PERIODS AND EVENTS CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF LAW, GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS 4022 3970 Labor and Capital Law, American Constitutional Law, the Common Law, the Criminal Law, English Constitutional Literature Mediæval Orators Nineteenth-Century Addresses Presidents of the United States Railroads Religion 4067 4069 4073 4076 4081 4083 4083 4088 4089 4089 4092 4096 4098 4099 4102 4103 Science Scotland Sermons and Pulpit Addresses Sociology and Politics The Tariff and Taxation Trials, Speeches and Orations at Celebrated United States Universities and Colleges Wars Each of the sub-indexes is itself arranged alphabetically to at least the third letter and each, of course, is in its own alphabetical order in the General Index. While the Indexes taken together are perhaps the most exhaustive analysis accompanying any historical and general collection in print, it is not claimed or believed that they are actually exhaustive of the immense variety of topics, the practically limitless thought, represented in nearly four thousand pages of text, which embrace the most notable utterances of so many of the strongest thinkers of history. It is hoped, however, that the general reader and the specialist will be able to use the indexes to focus the maximum intellect represented in the ten volumes on a given point in a way which will do much to make the costly conclusions from the painful experiences of the past, here collected and summarized, available for the progress of the future. |