PROLOGUE/序言 1
CHAPTER Ⅰ THE TYRANNY OF IGNORANCE/无知的暴虐 8
CHAPTER Ⅱ THE GREEKS/希腊人 18
CHAPTER Ⅲ THE BEGINNING OF RESTRAINT/桎梏的开始 54
CHAPTER Ⅳ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS/诸神的黄昏 64
CHAPTER Ⅴ IMPRISONMENT/囚禁 85
CHAPTER Ⅵ THE PURE OF LIFE/生活的纯洁 95
CHAPTER Ⅶ THE INQUISITION/宗教法庭 104
CHAPTER Ⅷ THE CURIOUS ONES/求知的人 122
CHAPTER Ⅸ THE WAR UPON THE PRINTED WORD/向书开战 135
CHAPTER Ⅹ CONCERNING THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN GENERAL AND
?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?8THIS BOOK IN PARTICULAR/历史写作的普遍性和本书的
?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?9?6?8特殊性 142
CHAPTER Ⅺ RENAISSANCE/文艺复兴 145
CHAPTER Ⅻ THE REFORMATION/宗教改革 153
CHAPTER ⅩⅢ ERASMUS/伊拉斯谟 166
CHAPTER ⅩⅣ RABELAIS/拉伯雷 181
CHAPTER ⅩⅤ NEW SIGNBOARDS FOR OLD/旧世界的新招牌 191
CHAPTER ⅩⅥ THE ANABAPTISTS/再洗礼教徒 212
CHAPTER ⅩⅦ THE SOZZINI FAMILY/索兹尼家族 222
CHAPTER ⅩⅧ MONTAIGNE/蒙田 232
CHAPTER ⅩⅨ ARMINIUS/阿米尼乌斯 238
CHAPTER ⅩⅩ BRUNO/布鲁诺 248
CHAPTER XXI SPINOZA/斯宾诺莎 254
CHAPTER ⅩⅫ THE NEW ZION/新的天国 267
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅢ THE SUN KING/太阳王 279
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅣ FREDERICK THE GREAT/腓特烈大帝 283
CHAPTER XXV VOLTAIRE/伏尔泰 286
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅥ THE ENCYCLOPEDIA/百科全书 306
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅦ THE INTOLERANCE OF REVOLUTION/革命的不宽容 314
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅧ LESSING/莱辛 324
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅨ TOM PAINE/汤姆?6?1潘恩 336
CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩ THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS/最后一百年 342
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In the year 527 Flavius Anicius Justinianus became ruler of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
This Serbian peasant he came from Uskub,the much disputed railroad junction of the late war had no use forbook learning.It was by his orders that the ancient Athenian school of philosophy was finally suppressed. And it was he who closed the doors of the only Egyptian temple that had continued to do business centuries after the valley of the Nile had been invaded by the monks of the new Christian faith.
This temple stood on a little island called Philae,not far from the first great waterfall of the Nile. Ever since men could remember,the spot had been dedicated to the worship of Isis and for some curious reason,the Goddess had survived where all her African and Greek and Roman rivals had miserably perished. Until finally,in the sixth century,the island was the only spot where the old and most holy art of picture writing was still understood and where a small number of priests continued to practice a trade which had been forgotten in every other part of the land of Cheops.
And now,by order of an illiterate farmhand,known as His Imperial Majesty,the temple and the adjoining school were declared state property,the statues and images were sent to the museum of Constantinople and the priests and the writing-masters were thrown into jail. And when the last of them had died from hunger and neglect,the age-old trade of making hieroglyphics had become a lost art.
All this was a great pity.
If Justinian a plague upon his head! had been a little less thorough and had saved just a few of those old picture experts in a sort of literary Noah''s Ark,he would have made the task of the historian a great deal easier. For while owing to the genius of Champollion we can once more spell out the strange Egyptian words,it remains exceedingly difficult for us to understand the inner meaning of their message to posterity.
And the same holds true for all other nations of the ancient world.