Here's a little bit from the Introduction:
Between five and six thousand years ago, in a few favored areas of the world, man firmly mastered the formulas that released him from an immeasurable long past of savagery, barbarism, and nomadism. He took root as he had never done before, and he flourished. Millenniums before the classic age of Greece he had learned to adventure with language and wind-shift thoughts and city-dwelling habits. For the first time in his history on earth he became aware of his humanity. He had become civilized..
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