将世界人类过半数的历史,从远古到现今,简括的叙在一册不及四百八十页的书里,很不是容易的工作.指出各种文化的特点,与各种民族的特殊贡献,贯串穿插,成一部首尾贯注,详略平允的记载,既不要空泛以致精采毫无,又不要繁冗以致原委模糊,这样的作品,只有学问渊博而又轻重分明的人能 It is by no means an easy task that the history of more than half of the world’s human beings, from ancient times to the present, be briefly described in a book of less than 480 pages, pointing out the characteristics of various cultures, the special contributions of various nationalities, Throughout, into a head and tail end of note, a detailed record of Ping Yun, neither empty-so-spirited, but also not so complicated that the whole conviction, such works, only learned and resolute people