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PROF. MENGHIN has taken ten years in the preparation of this extremely important book, and he has certainly not wasted his time. Quite probably it is the last serious work, bearing such an ambitious title, which will ever be written. For it is one of the tragedies resulting from the increase of knowledge, that a general survey of a subject becomes less and less possible. Field-workers are, as it were, bricklayers whose position, so close to the small section of wall they are building, makes any general view of the edifice as a whole impossible; and, even for those who are less concerned with the actual building, the structure of knowledge has become so vast and is growing so rapidly as to make a comprehensive study of the whole a very difficult task.
Weltgeschichte der Steinzeit.
Prof. Oswald Menghin. Pp. xvi + 648. (Wien: Anton Schroll und Co., 1931.) 40 gold marks.
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BURKITT, M. Weltgeschichte der Steinzeit . Nature 127, 843–845 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127843a0
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