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A Philosophy of Social Progress (Classic Reprint)

Author : E. J. Urwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331735390
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Social Progress (Classic Reprint) written by E. J. Urwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Philosophy of Social Progress I will make bold to state my heresies dogmatically. Sociology is commonly described as the science of social life. I do not believe that there is or can be any science of social life; nor do I believe that sociology is or can be a science. There is a little scientific knowledge of some few of the conditions under which we socii live, of some few of the activities in which our social life is manifested. What passes for sociology is a collection of generalizations of very varying value; and it is inevitable that most social generalizations shall be at once more or less dignified guesses, and more or less disguised ex pressions of the hopes and fears, the prejudices and beliefs, of their originators. There may, however, be a philosophy of social life - or rather, of social change; but this will be transcendental, of course, and will always be very closely analogous to a religious faith. It will vary from age to age, just as the forms of faith do; that is to say, the expression of its dominant conceptions will vary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Philosophy of Social Progress

Author : E. J. Urwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330195345
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Social Progress written by E. J. Urwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Philosophy of Social Progress I ask the reader's pardon for a lengthy preface and introduction. It is not necessary, for an understanding of the argument, that either should be read; most readers will do wisely to omit them - as I think they usually do. But both are necessary in order to justify the unusual treatment of the subject which I have adopted, and to explain the object of the book. For my aim is a double one: I have attempted to introduce students and general readers to a point of view which may increase their interest in the study of social life, and perhaps, too, their understanding of the issues involved in all progress and reform; I have attempted also to attack the usual conception of social science, and the usual methods of presenting that science. Of these two aims, the former has resulted in a treatment of some of the principles of sociology which is at any rate unusual. There is, I believe, no book on general sociology which is satisfactory for ordinary people; and in view of the extraordinary vagueness of the subject, it is unlikely that any satisfactory introductory book will be produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Science and Social Progress

Author : Herbert Wallace Schneider
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332879512
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Science and Social Progress written by Herbert Wallace Schneider and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Science and Social Progress: A Philosophical Introduction to Moral Science Give us a guide, cry men to the philosopher.1 We would escape from these miseries in which we are entangled. A better state is ever present to our imaginations, and we yearn after it; but all our efforts to realize it are fruitless We are weary of perpetual failures; tell us by what rule we may attain our desire. Have a little patience, returns the moralist, and I will give you my Opinion as to the mode of securing this greatest happiness to the greatest number. There again, exclaim the objectors, you mistake our require ment. We want something else than opinions. We have had enough Of them. Every futile scheme for the general good has been based on opinion; and we have no guarantee that your plan will not add one to the list of failures. Have you discovered a means of forming an infallible judgment? If not, you are, for aught we know, as much in the dark as ourselves. True, you have Obtained a clearer view of the end to be arrived at; but concerning the route leading to it, your offer of an opinion proves that you know nothing more certain than we do. We demur to your maxim because it is not what we wanted - a guide because it dictates no sure mode of securing the desideratum because it puts no veto on a mistaken policy; because it permits all actions bad, as readily as good - provided only the actors believe them con ducive to the prescribed end. Your doctrines of 'expediency' or utility or 'general good or 'greatest happiness to the greatest num ber afford not a solitary command of a practical character. Let but rulers think, or profess to think, that their measures will benefit the community, and your philosophy stands mute in the presence of the most egregious folly, or the blackest misconduct. This will not do for us. We seek a system that can return a definite answer when we ask Is this act good?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry James Slack
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483198326
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs (Classic Reprint) written by Henry James Slack and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs Sociology, or Social Science - Its Origin and Objects - Ideas of Law - Growth of Positive Science - Modem Discoveries in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Social Progress

Author : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330850923
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Social Progress written by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Progress: An Essay The 'System of Psychology, ' by the present writer, was published in 1884; 'The Problem of Evil, ' in 1886; the 'Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind, ' in 1888. None of these volumes has a preface, the author believing that in general, when a book is before the reader, to explain it is quite superfluous. It ought to be judged according to what it is, not according to what its author may say about it. With this treatise I depart from my former practice, not so much for the purpose of commenting upon what is now presented to the public, as with the view of showing its relations to former works and its place in a scheme of systematic thought which was projected more than twenty years ago and has been completed to this point. I shall, therefore, ask the reader's pardon for becoming a little autobiographical and for indulging in a somewhat familiar conversation about my books and the philosophy of which they are the expression. In looking over a note-book, dated nineteen years ago, in the year of my graduation from Amherst College, in Massachusetts, I find a general plan of life, which had been fixed upon two or three years previously. As we grow older we are rather inclined to disparage our youthful enthusiasms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A New Basis for Social Progress (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Charles White
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528289160
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book A New Basis for Social Progress (Classic Reprint) written by William Charles White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Basis for Social Progress Criticisms of the principles promulgated herein, which have been as freely invited as offered, have dwelt most with the novelty of the plan proposed. Conservatism must ever play its part. Yet in other fields of activity in America novelty has scarcely been an insurmountable barrier to progress. If our proposal be a novelty, as it has been heralded by those educators who have been approached for eriti cism, it is novel only in the field of education. The principles are ancient ones, long operative in every branch of scientific research. The newness lies, not in the principles, but in the application of those principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Present Status of Social Science

Author : Robert S. Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330669570
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Present Status of Social Science written by Robert S. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Present Status of Social Science: A Review, Historical and Critical, of the Progress of Thought in Social Philosophy 1. A science has already made great progress toward the attainment of its ends, when it has attained to clear perception what those ends really are. It is already far advanced, when it has come at length to clear understanding of the work it has really to perform - to full cognition of its true and proper ends. It has been well said by an ancient sage, "He has already half finished his work who has begun it." Rightly enough may it be so said, and in a far wider sense than that intended by the author of the sentiment. For we do not know, we have not yet learned, how to begin our work properly, until we have already half finished it - nay, nearly completed it - in so far, indeed, as human effort ever completes any work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Social Physics

Author : Auguste Comte
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365211747
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Social Physics written by Auguste Comte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Physics: From the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte The misfortune Of our actual state is that the two ideas are set up in radical Opposition to each other - the retrograde Spirit having directed all efforts-ih favor of Order, and anarchical doctrine hav ing arrogated to itself the charge Of Social Progress; and, in this state of things, the reproaches exchanged between the respective parties are only too well merited by both. In this vicious circle is society new confined and the only issue from it is by the undispu ted preponderance Of a doctrine equally progressive and hierarchi cal. The Observations which I have to make On this subject are applicable to all European societies, which have, in fact, all under gone a common disorganization, though in different degrees, and with various modifications, and which can not be separately reergam izod, however they may be for a time restrained; but I shall keep the French nation chiefly in view, not only because the revolution ary state has been most conspicuous in them, but because they are, in all important respects, better prepared, in Spite Of appearances, than any other, for a true reorganization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Social Sanity a Preface to the Book of Social Progress (Classic Reprint)

Author : Scott Nearing
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267200320
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Social Sanity a Preface to the Book of Social Progress (Classic Reprint) written by Scott Nearing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Sanity a Preface to the Book of Social Progress A questioning age lays bare the innermost secrets which the scalpel of critical analysis will reveal. Nothing is so sacred, nothing so holy that it may claim exemption from the ordeal. Every available nook and cranny of life is searched, and the results of the investigation appear in the daily press. Publicity reigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

System of Positive Polity, Or Treatise on Sociology, Vol. 3

Author : Auguste Comte
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333079543
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book System of Positive Polity, Or Treatise on Sociology, Vol. 3 written by Auguste Comte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from System of Positive Polity, or Treatise on Sociology, Vol. 3: Instituting the Religion of Humanity; Containing Social Dynamics, or the General Theory of Human Progress After this just acknowledgment Of the three inﬂuences by which this volume has specially benefited, I must next point out its natural connection with the preceding volume and the relation it bears to the corresponding portion Of my funda mental work Ou Positive Philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Theories of Social Progress

Author : Arthur James Todd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528473453
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Social Progress written by Arthur James Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate the Conditions of Human Advance My originalplan included a detailed treatment of the educational reconstruction implied in the conclusions here outlined. But the writings of Professor John Dewey and other modernists in education have rendered such a dis cussion not only gratuitous but presumptuous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy and Education

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

Control in Evolution

Author : George F. Wilkin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267650439
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Control in Evolution written by George F. Wilkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Control in Evolution: A Discussion of the Fundamental Principles of Social Order and Progress First directed to the study of Society, or to what is now called the science of Sociology. From the first somewhat surprised at the character of many of the statements made, I have been led to study science for myself, and especially the sciences of Biology, Ethics and Sociology, as well as to make some slight excursions into the domain of philosophy, with a View to discovering, if possible, the true attitude of the human mind toward the supersensuous. The result, after long years, is in the writing of this little book, which, if not scientific in form, is so, I trust, in its re gard for fact, as it certainly is in the convie tions and sympathies that have inspired the writing of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Idea of Progress

Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351515462
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book History of the Idea of Progress written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.

Social Science

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816631278
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Social Science written by Gerard Delanty and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.

The Idea of Progress

Author : J. Bury
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265555835
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by J. Bury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth The present attempt to trace the genesis and growth of the idea in broad outline is a purely historical inquiry, and any discussion of the great issue which is involved lies outside its modest scope. Occasional criticisms on particular forms which the creed of Progress assumed, or on arguments which were used to support it, are not intended as a judgment on its general validity. I may, however, make two observations here. The doubts which Mr. Balfour expressed nearly thirty years ago, in an Address delivered at Glasgow, have not, so far as I know, been answered. And it is probable that many people, to whom six years ago the notion of a sudden decline or break-up of our western civilisa tion, as a result not of cosmic forces but of its own development, would have appeared almost fantastic, will feel much less confident to-day, notwithstanding the fact that the leading nations of the world have instituted a league of peoples for the prevention of war, the measure to which so many high priests of Progress have looked forward as meaning a long stride forward on the road to Utopia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs

Author : Henry James Slack
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330211243
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs written by Henry James Slack and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs Sociology, or Social Science, was necessarily a late growth of the human mind, and could not exist until the various sciences that branch into it had received a considerable development. Its object is to trace the laws that regulate the varied and complex phenomena of social life, which it seeks to elucidate by the method of observation and experiment, and especially of deduction from principles that the human mind when applied to these subjects is led to recognize as true. The idea of law, method, order, or unchanging continuity of Divine will, has entered more or less into the philosophy of all times. Without it, sociology could not have arisen within the horizon of human thought, and in that science this idea receives its idea pervading and comprehensive form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.