title: My Century (New York Review Books Classics)
author:  Aleksander Wat 
description: "It would be impossible for me to overstate my admiration for this book. It is a magnificent achievement, one of the most moving and powerful books I have ever read."
zlib_text:  
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  The Thirteenth: 
   
  Greatest of Centuries 
   
  JAMES J. WALSH, M.D. 
   
  PH.D., SC.D., LITT.D., LL.D., PED.D. 
  KNIGHT OF ST. GREGORY 
  KNIGHT OF MALTA 
   
  FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS 
  The Declan X. McMullen Company, Inc. 
   
  Distributors 
  22 Park Place, New York 7, New York 
   
  
  THIRTEENTH, GREATEST OF CENTURIES. 
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  Copyright 1907 by JAMES J. WALSH 
   
  1907: First edition, set and stereotyped 
  1909: Second edition, reprinted with Appendix 
  1910: Third edition: Georgetown University Edition, enlarged, and with 
  additional illustrations 
  1912: Fourth edition, with additions 
  1912, 1913: Fifth edition: Knights of Columbus 
  1916: Sixth edition 
  1920: Seventh edition 
  1924: Eighth edition: “Best Books” 
  1929: Ninth edition: Jubilee Edition 
  1937: Tenth edition: Scholastic Edition 
  1943: Eleventh edition: Memorial Edition 
  1952: Twelfth edition 
   
  Seventy-eighth thousand 
   
  PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
   
  BY THE CORNWALL PRESS, INC. 
   
  
   
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  PROEM. 
   
  (EPIMETHEUS.) 
   
  WAKE ag