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The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries

by James J. Walsh

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Appendix I

So-called history. 430

Appendix II432

Twenty-Six Chapters That Might Have Been

I.America in the Thirteenth Century--Papal documents.
II.A representative upper house.
III.The parish, and training in citizenship.
IV.The chance to rise.
V.Insurance--fire, marine, robbery, against injustice.
VI.Old age pensions, disability wages.
VII.Ways and means of charity--organized charity.
VIII.Scientific universities, investigation, writing.
IX.Medical education and high professional status.
X.Magnetism--first perpetual motion inventor--the North Pole.
XI.Biological theories--evolution, recapitulation.
XII.The Pope of the century--Innocent III.
XIII.International arbitration.
XIV.Bible revision.
XV.Fiction of the century.
XVI.Great orators.
XVII.Great beginnings of English literature.
XVIII.Origins of music.
XIX.Refinement and table manners.
XX.Textiles, satins, brocades, laces, needlework.
XXI.Glass-making.
XXII.Inventions.
XXIII.Industry and trade.
XXIV.Fairs and markets.
XXV.Intensive farming.
XXVI.Cartography and the teaching of geography--Hereford Map of the World.

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