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Publisher’s Note to the First EditionThe chapters constituting this book were written under the title“The Psychology of Social Development” from month to monthin the philosophical monthly, “Arya”, from August 15, 1916to July 15, 1918 and used recent and contemporary events aswell as illustrations from the history of the past in explanationof the theory of social evolution put forward in these pages.The reader has therefore to go back in his mind to the eventsof that period in order to follow the line of thought and theatmosphere in which it developed. At one time there suggesteditself the necessity of bringing this part up to date, especiallyby some reference to later developments in Nazi Germany andthe development of a totalitarian Communist regime in Russia.But afterwards it was felt that there was sufficient previsionand allusion to these events and more elaborate description orcriticism of them was not essential; there was already withoutthem an adequate working out and elucidation of this theory ofthe social cycle.November, 1949