(A) The Sui dynasty (A.D. 580-618) 1 Internal situation in the newly unified empire 2 Relations with Turks and with Korea 3 Reasons for collapse (B) The T'ang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) 1 Reforms and decentralization 2 Turkish policy 3

Despite several attempts to unify the continent politically, Europe was disrupted, fragmented and weakened by two general wars in a single generation.

The detached individual records the transit of a star, observes a precipitate in a test tube, stains a preparation and examines it under a microscope, collects in the field, takes notes in a hospitaland loyally contributes his little fragment of a report to the ideally unified and constantly growing totality called scientific human experience.

Common knowledge is un-unified knowledge; science is partially unified knowledge; philosophy, which combines the highest generalizations of the sciences into a supreme one, is completely unified knowledge.

How sweetly unifying in the midst of a jarring Christendom has been the spirit of Phillips Brooks!