books.google.de - Arnold Toynbee's ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations is acknowledged as one of the great achievements of modern scholarship. D.C. Somervell's extraordinary two-volume abridgement has captured the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original....http://books.google.de/books/about/A_study_of_history.html?hl=de&id=aRmTMxO61m4C&q=secular&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA study of history