by Will Durant
* In 1934 the population of the Japanese Empire (i.e., Japan, Korea, Formosa and some minor possessions) totaled eighty millions. Should Japan succeed in reconciling the inhabitants of Manchuria to Japanese rule, it will control, for industry and war, 110,000,000 people. As the population of Japan alone increases by a million a year, and that of the United States is rapidly approaching a stationary condition, the two systems may soon confront each other with approximately equal populations.
* The ratio of 5-5-3 was based upon the greater extent of coast-lines or possessions requiring English or American defense, as compared with the limited and protected territory of Japan.
* By this principle the number of immigrants from any country was to bear the same ratio to the total of permitted annual immigration as persons of that nationality had borne to the total population of America in 1890.
* Written in 1934.
* It is possible that agriculture and the domestication of animals are as ancient in neolithic Europe as in neolithic Asia; but it seems more likely that the New Stone Age cultures of Europe were younger than those of Africa and Asia. Cf. Chapter VI above.
† In this and subsequent statements the word known is to be understood.
* A═Arabic; C═Chinese; E═Egyptian; F═French; G═German; Gr═Greek; He═Hebrew; H═one of the Hindu languages; I═Italian; J═Japanese; L═Latin; S═Sumerian; Sp═Spanish.
* Books starred are recommended for further study.
* The full title of a book is given only on its first occurrence in these Notes; abbreviated later references may be filled out by consulting the foregoing Bibliographical Guide to Books Referred to in the Text.
* The diacritical marks used in this index will indicate that the letters so marked are to be sounded approximately like the italicized letters in the following words: āle, câre, ădd, ärm, ; Chair; ēve, , makēr; go; īce, ; k like ch in German Ich; ôrb, ; oil, out; ūnite, ŭp, menü; short ŭ, when italicized, will be as in circus.