THE fact that this volume starts with Part VI, chapter XXIII, is a reminder that this is not a complete work but the latter part of one, and a reader who entered upon it without any knowledge of what had gone before would find himself involved in much the same difficulties as would beset him if he began reading the third volume of one of the Victorian ‘three-volume’ novels. At the end of this volume will be found an ‘Argument’, summarizing the course of the whole work. It may be useful to those who have read the earlier part of Mr. Toynbee’s Study , either in its original or its abridged form, and partly forgotten it.
I am very grateful to Miss O. P. Self for compiling the Index to this book:
1955 D. C. S.