Order and History is a philosophical inquiry concerning the principal types of order of human existence in society and history as well as the corresponding symbolic forms. The oldest civilizational were the empires of the ancient Near East in the forms of the cosmological myth. And from this oldest stratum of order emerged, through the Mosaic and Sinaitic revelations, the Chosen People with its historical form in the present under God. The two types of order, together with their symbolic forms, were the subject matter of Volume I, Israel and Revelation. In the Aegean area emerged, from the stratum of order in cosmological form, the Hellenic polis with the symbolic form of philosophy. The study of Polis and Philosophy matches, in the organization of Order and History, the earlier one on Israel and Revelation. Because of its size this second study had to be divided into the present Volumes II, The World of the Polis and III, Plato and Aristotle. The two volumes, though each stands for itself in the treatment of its respective subject matter, from a unit of study.