Quigley's socio-political doctrines are largely those of today's middle-of-the-road: he looks back with horror upon the evils of the nineteenth century and predicts a future in which the practices of technology shall be hedged with concern for the common good. A great deal of its reference value will, of course, be determined by its index, and the elaborateness of its Table of Contents, not seen here. To blink, is to miss a whole handful of data as this book flies by it is rather too much of a dose of history to be imbibed in the span of a library loan. Quigley makes extensive use of precis, but precis require tremendous compression and, more often than not, appalling oversimplifications. It is a staggering project to read this work: a minutely-detailed history of the modern world in two approximately standard-size volumes.
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